Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to wobble; unsteady.
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- adjective
unsteady andtending towobble - noun US, labor union Alternative spelling of
Wobbly . - noun UK, slang A
wobbler ; a fit of rage.
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Examples
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I said, the word wobbly and anguished, my mouth barely able to form the sounds.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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I said, the word wobbly and anguished, my mouth barely able to form the sounds.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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I said, the word wobbly and anguished, my mouth barely able to form the sounds.
Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009
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And by the way, I am being nice because what I really want to write would be too trashy for even your column ... what you call wobbly is what musicians call "vibrato".
Mirror.co.uk - News 2009
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And by the way, I am being nice because what I really want to write would be too trashy for even your column ... what you call wobbly is what musicians call "vibrato".
Mirror.co.uk - News 2009
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I wonder if anyone read that letter, written on pages torn out of a note-book in wobbly handwriting (my fingers were still partly paralysed) and still more wobbly Spanish.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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And little Tommy, in wobbly uphill printing, had labeled an elephant filled with candy, FOR DERE CISTER FROM
Just Patty 1911
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W, remember, stands for "wobbly" - precisely what this recovery is turning out to be.
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In fact, let's not call our wobbly progress from the brink of a global financial meltdown a "recovery."
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Here's Bob Shrum telling the Democrats not to go wobbly, which is fine and I don't have a problem with it.
Hullabaloo 2008
johnmperry commented on the word wobbly
International Workers of the World, or IWW, was also referred to as "I Won't Work
July 21, 2008
Jakida commented on the word wobbly
wobbly would in my opinion be best described as shaky while in a structure ... that's if you don't want to use the literal word 'wobble'
March 4, 2014