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wobble
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wobble has 1 sense
- wobble(n = noun.event) Array - an unsteady rocking motion; Array is a kind of motion, movement
has particulars: shimmy
Derived forms verb wobble1, verb wobble2, adjective wobbly1
Verb wobble has 3 senses
- wobble(v = verb.motion) coggle - move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street" is one way to move
- wobble(v = verb.motion) careen, shift, tilt - move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" is one way to move
- wobble(v = verb.motion) shimmy - tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion" is one way to vibrate
Derived forms noun wobble1, noun wobbler1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derived forms noun wobble1, noun wobbler1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wobble, v. & n.
--v.
1 a intr. sway or vibrate unsteadily from side to side. b tr. cause to do this.
2 intr. stand or go unsteadily; stagger.
3 intr. waver, vacillate; act inconsistently.
4 intr. (of the voice or sound) quaver, pulsate.
--n.
1 a wobbling movement.
2 an instance of vacillation or pulsation.
--v.
1 a intr. sway or vibrate unsteadily from side to side. b tr. cause to do this.
2 intr. stand or go unsteadily; stagger.
3 intr. waver, vacillate; act inconsistently.
4 intr. (of the voice or sound) quaver, pulsate.
--n.
1 a wobbling movement.
2 an instance of vacillation or pulsation.
Idiom
wobble-board Austral. a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument with a low booming sound.
Derivative
wobbler n.
Etymology
earlier wabble, corresp. to LG wabbeln, ON vafla waver f. Gmc: cf. WAVE, WAVER, -LE(4)
THESAURUS
wobble
alternate, amble, arrhythmia, back and fill, barge, bob, bobble, bounce, bowl along, brokenness, bump, bundle, capriciousness, careen, change, chatter, choppiness, clump, coggle, dangle, desultoriness, didder, disconnectedness, discontinuity, dither, drag, ebb and flow, eccentricity, equivocate, erraticness, falter, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, fluctuation, flutter, foot, footslog, go through phases, grimace, halt, have an ague, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hustle, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactitate, jar, jerk, jerkiness, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, nonuniformity, nutate, oscillate, pace, paddle, patchiness, peg, pendulate, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, plod, prance, quake, quaver, quiver, rack, reel, resonate, rictus, ring the changes, rock, roll, roughness, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw, shake, shamble, shift, shilly-shally, shimmy, shiver, shock, shudder, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stalk, stammer, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swag, swagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, tic, tittup, toddle, topple, toss, totter, traipse, tremble, tremor, trip, trudge, turn, twitch, twitter, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacillate, variability, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, wamble, wave, waver, wax and wane, weave, whimsicality, wiggle
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