giffle-gaffle

English

Noun

giffle-gaffle (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Nonsense.
    • 2015, Stephen Jarvis, Death and Mr Pickwick:
      Giffle gaffle! No boy should ever be told that!
    • 2016, William Sutton, Lawless and the Flowers of Sin:
      I exchanged glances with Molly over this endless giffle-gaffle: chatter of conquests and concubines, bawdhouses and laudanum.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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