curˈwhibble ? dial.
[app. connected with whybibble given by Forby as ‘a whimsey, idle fancy, silly scruple, etc.’ With the first syllable cf. curfuffle, and carwitchet, carriwitchet.]
? A whimsical or nonsensical contrivance; also attrib.
| 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy x. 99 Don't the English catch their fish..with a long rough stick, and a little curwhibble of a bone at the end of it? 1887 H. Knollys Sk. Life Japan 114 Workmen..laboriously cutting, with little, clumsy, cur⁓wibble hooks, the crop, handful by handful. |