wobbly
see also: Wobbly
Etymology

From wobble + -y.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈwɑb(ə)li/
Adjective

wobbly (comparative wobblier, superlative wobbliest)

  1. Unsteady and tending to wobble.
    Synonyms: precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady
Translations Noun

wobbly (plural wobblies)

  1. Alternative spelling of Wobbly.
  2. (colloquial, chiefly, British) A wobbler; a fit of rage; a tantrum.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:tantrum

Wobbly
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
Noun

wobbly (plural wobblies)

  1. A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. [from 20th c.]
    Synonyms: Wob
    • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 1, in Red Harvest:
      The gray man didn’t think I had any right to the card I had showed him, nor to the other one I had mentioned. He didn’t think I was a good wobbly. As chief muckademuck of the I. W. W. in Personville, he considered it his duty to get the low-down on me, and to not let himself be pumped about radical affairs while he was doing it.



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