wibble
:wibble: [UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip in
"VIZ" comics, spread via "Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s and early
1990s"] 1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter, content-free remarks
or other essentially meaningless contributions to threads in newsgroups.
"Oh, rspence is wibbling again". 2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op
equivalent to humma
. 3. One of the preferred metasyntactic variable
in the UK, forming a series with `wobble', `wubble', and `flob'
(attributed to the hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder"). 4. A
pronounciation of the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e.,
www. foo
.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare {dub dub dub}
).
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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