giffle

English

Etymology

From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis.[1]

Verb

giffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)

  1. (East Anglia) to be restless or fidgety
    • [1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147:
      […] sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]]

References
  1. Robert Forby (1830) The Vocabulary of East Anglia‎, volume II, page 131
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