From wobble + -y.

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

wobbly (comparative wobblier, superlative wobbliest)

1. Unsteady and tending to wobble.

   Synonyms: precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady

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

wobbly (plural wobblies)

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

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:tantrum

• (British) IPA: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/

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.