dibby-dibby

dibby-dibby
 adj.โ€” ยซThe game, however, will not recapture its past glory if its leadership continues, in a Jamaican colloquialism, to be “dibby-dibby,” which is to say, lacking in character, worth and purposefulness.ยป โ€”โ€œDibby-dibby Dibbs?” Jamaica Observer (Kingston) Sept. 29, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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