wabble

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Lon quit singing almost at once and walked good and his eyes didn't wabble, and he looked kind of desperate and respectable, and Ben was first-class, except he was slightly oratorical and his collar had melted the way fat men's do.

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  1. verb Variant of wobble.

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  • Anders saw, with a dull terror, that the cylinder had begun to wabble, as if loosely held in its guides. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • For downright laughableness and ludicrity the Charlie Chaplin walk has nothing on the Shakleton gliding-wabble.
  • The reptile gave a wabble, expressive of lazy surprise, and sank slowly back into the slimy water The shot startled more than one huge creature, for immediately afterwards they heard several flops in the water near them, but the tall sedges prevented their seeing what animals they were. —  The Red Eric
  • )[272 Our Ex-President, however, has ceased apparently to "wabble." —  Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
  • Lon quit singing almost at once and walked good and his eyes didn't wabble, and he looked kind of desperate and respectable, and Ben was first-class, except he was slightly oratorical and his collar had melted the way fat men's do. —  Somewhere in Red Gap
 

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  1. A dial. variant of warble, n.
 

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/ˈwɑbl/
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