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  • adjective UK, informal Wobbly.

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Examples

  • Amazing wibbly wobbly jangle that's been time-machined from the indie charts of 1985.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • Amazing wibbly wobbly jangle that's been time-machined from the indie charts of 1985.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • Where Davies presented a hearts-on-our-sleeves Doctor Who, with situations not infrequently resolved amidst a great deal of running and shouting and swooping Murray Gold score, replete with "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" explanations, Moffat's is more Inception-like in presenting a science fictional sort of puzzle.

    William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who William Bradley 2011

  • Where Davies presented a hearts-on-our-sleeves Doctor Who, with situations not infrequently resolved amidst a great deal of running and shouting and swooping Murray Gold score, replete with "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" explanations, Moffat's is more Inception-like in presenting a science fictional sort of puzzle.

    William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who William Bradley 2011

  • In the US, similar joyous, all-consuming piffle like The Hills, Laguna Beach, The Real Housewives of Orange County, and Jersey Shore are a ratings phenomenon, producing wibbly-wobbly hinterworld celebrities like Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.

    Grace Dent's TV OD Grace Dent 2010

  • Tennant's tenth Doctor sometimes waved off an expected wave of Star Trek-style technospeak either with a bit of inspired babbling or with a humorously dismissive "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" non-explanation.

    William Bradley: Doctor Who: The Long Goodbye 2010

  • Anyway, I didn't get wibbly -- I felt the writer's hand too heavily -- but Tennant's performance was really terrific, particularly his plainitive cry, before he does what he knows he must do, that he could do so much more, it isn't fair! and his farewell line, which was very nicely played.

    DW: "The End of Time, Part II" and next season preview (SPOILERS) hradzka 2010

  • Somewhere around four miles my feet started to get wibbly/numb from impact, and since that's the "gosh, you've walked more than four miles" sign if I haven't been walking a great deal lately, I was a little surprised.

    numbers game genitiggie 2007

  • A question that occurs to all of us out here on the wibbly wobbly web from time to time.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Helen Howes 2009

  • That left me stranded with no glasses and a simmering eye infection (which seems to have been improved today, but we'll see how long that lasts), so I made distressed wibbly faces at the nice man in the authoritative name tag.

    inconsolable. moriarty6 2007

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