dibby-dibby
adj.— «An attack on the PNP’s rule during the 1970s, for example, is followed, to uproarious applause, by a description of Mr Manley’s team as a “dibby-dibby posse”—meaning something like “smart-arse.”» —“The Election Will Be Based On Personalities, Says The Economist” Economist Jan. 21, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
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