giffle
English edit
Etymology edit
From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis.[1]
Verb edit
giffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)
- (East Anglia) to be restless or fidgety
- [1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147:
- […] sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]]