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