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Examples
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The little dibbly-dobbly bowlers aren't having as much success as they had five or 10 years ago.
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Ireland's Call - now that's what I call an anthem... followed by the inevitably more staid sounds of Botha's dibbly dobblies will be missed but Wilson, who is usually a keeper, is breaking through for Surrey so should provide good batting depth.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Slow drop in pitches where dibbly dobblers can look unplayable, more rain interruptions than hot meals, gale force winds disturbing bowler's run-ups and grounds that don't have any practice nets, because they are primarily rugby stadiums, are just some of the conditions to which this young Indian camp must quickly adjust.
Cricket365 2009
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Surely Colly's dibbly-dobblers are much better than that of Trott.
Cricket365 | Cricket 2009
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Paul Collingwood and his dibbly-dobblies into the attack.
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But do you want a dibbly dobbly keeping Binger and
Cricket-Blog.com 2009
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Paul Collingwood and his dibbly-dobblies into the attack.
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"Well, the seamers bowled at a spinner's pace, all 60mph dibbly-dobblers," Pietersen said, just moments after mentioning that one of England's problems here was that they forgot to respect the opposition.
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The most perfectly honed field configuration is for nought when you have a dibbly dobbly part-timer like Mike Hussey helping the batsmen get their eye in and boost their batting average.
Cricket-Blog.com 2008
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(link) whoa, I got TWO soundbites! that's dibbly fresh.
slayground: The Baby-Sitters Club: Survey Says Little Willow 2006
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