wobbly
see also: Wobbly
Adjective
Wobbly
Pronunciation
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see also: Wobbly
Adjective
wobbly (comparative wobblier, superlative wobbliest)
Synonyms- (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady
- French: vacillant, chancelant
- Italian: traballante
- Russian: шаткий
wobbly (plural wobblies)
Synonyms- (fit of rage) see Thesaurus:tantrum
Wobbly
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
wobbly (plural Wobblies)
- A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. [from 20th c.]
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 1,
- 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.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 318:
- I drew myself up taller. I gave a beautiful account of my career with the Wobblies.
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 1,
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