Definition of WIBBLE

wibble

Noun

  • Meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.

Verb

  • To make meaningless comments.
  • To wobble.

Origin / Etymology

Unclear; possibly originates in the British Roger Irrelevant comic strip, then popularised by Your Sinclair magazine and the comedy Blackadder.

Synonyms

BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, babble, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bavardage, bibble-babble, bilgewater, blab, blabber, blabbing, blah, blather, blathering, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, clamjamfrey, claptrap, claver, clepe, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, gabble, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, hot air, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, mardle, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, natter, nertz, nonsense, palaver, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prate, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, scuttlebutt, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, small talk, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tattle, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, waffle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad, yackety-yak, yap, yatter

Scrabble Score: 13

wibble: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
wibble: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
wibble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

wibble: valid Words With Friends Word