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English
Noun
giffle-gaffle (uncountable)
- (obsolete, slang) Nonsense.
2015, Stephen Jarvis, Death and Mr Pickwick:Giffle gaffle! No boy should ever be told that!
2016, William Sutton, Lawless and the Flowers of Sin:I exchanged glances with Molly over this endless giffle-gaffle: chatter of conquests and concubines, bawdhouses and laudanum.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary