wobbly

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Adjective

wobbly (comparative wobblier, superlative wobbliest)

1. Unsteady and tending to wobble.

Synonyms

• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady

Translations

• French: vacillant, chancelant
• Italian: traballante
• Russian: шаткий

Noun

wobbly (plural wobblies)

1. (US, labor union) Alternative spelling of Wobbly
2. (British, slang) A wobbler; a fit of rage.

Synonyms

• (fit of rage) see Thesaurus:tantrum

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Wobbly

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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.]
   • 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.

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