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dibby-dibby

dibby-dibby
 adj.— «He has a guy talking about dibby-dibby girls and in the patois dibby-dibby means nothing—like dibby-dibby money which is worthless. I’ve never heard anyone talk about a dibby-dibby woman. He’s trying very hard but he messes up in places.» —“Young Darrin O’Brien, late of North York and Metro East Detention Centre, is Toronto’s newest money-making export” by Gordon Dodson Metropolitan Toronto Business Journal June 1, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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