GIBBLE

Descriptive of an emotional state in which one's mind is scrabbling for some purchase on reality, much like a hamster sliding into a glass bathtub. From wibble-sclup (echoic? Terry Pratchett, _Men At Arms_) and gibber (verb, denoting the act of spouting panicked gibberish). Example: A: How are you doing? B: Eeble! Wib! Computer crashy no time help! C: Oh, don't mind him--he's a little gibble about the essay due tomorrow.