? dial. [app. connected with whybibble given by Forby as ‘a whimsey, idle fancy, silly scruple, etc.’ With the first syllable cf. CURFUFFLE, and carwitchet, CARRIWITCHET.] ? A whimsical or nonsensical contrivance; also attrib.
1842. S. Lover, Handy Andy, x. 96. Don’t the Indians catch their fish … with a long rough stick, and a little curwhibble of a bone at the end of it?
1887. H. Knollys, Sk. Life Japan, 114. Workmen … laboriously cutting, with little, clumsy, curwibble hooks, the crop, handful by handful.
