Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move or rotate with an uneven or rocking motion or unsteadily from side to side.
- v. To tremble or quaver: The child's voice wobbled with emotion.
- v. To waver or vacillate in one's opinions or feelings.
- v. To cause to wobble.
- n. The act or an instance of wobbling; unsteady motion.
- n. A tremulous, uncertain tone or sound: a vocal wobble.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See wabble.
Wiktionary
- n. An unsteady motion.
- n. A tremulous sound.
- n. music A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep
- v. intransitive To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
- v. intransitive To tremble or quaver.
- v. intransitive To vacillate in one's opinions.
- v. transitive To cause to wobble.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. See wabble.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move unsteadily
- n. an unsteady rocking motion
- v. move sideways or in an unsteady way
- v. tremble or shake
Etymologies
- Probably from Low German wabbeln; see webh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I prefer the term wobble, as in the Southern Wobble, the Pacific Decadal Wobble, etc., as that better fits the actual behavior.”
“We do our best to show the world our best, for fear of what might be the consequence were we to admit we are 'in wobble'.”
“If the head wobbles, use a butane lighter to carefully reheat the glue holding the insert and rotate both insert and broadhead together until the wobble is tamed.”
“Sometimes the wobble is mild, sometimes it can knock me right out of orbit.”
“The sonic wobble is captured in two ways: by carefully recording the results of gentle coaxing and by expressing the wobble frequency as physically powerful base tones.”
“The ability to spit death and make your knees wobble is always a great duo and these poster girls for the Free world are out there keeping it safe today.”
“Economists said the political transition in Colombia could cause a short-term wobble in the peso currency and local TES debt markets.”
“The dramatic "vote Clegg, get IMF" alert - predicting panic in the financial markets and a sterling "wobble" - was the party's starkest warning yet of economic collapse if there is no decisive result on May 6.”
“Petite – enjoy it, even the shit bits because take it from me and no doubt all your readers with chidlren over 12 – throwing a baby wobble is nothing compared to a phone call from the school wanting to ‘discuss’ your teenager.”
“If you haven't been watching all afternoon, it took a wobble, which is really common in tropical systems like that.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wobble’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
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onomatopoeias (2 syllable)
2 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (1 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
( op...wobble, sputter, spatter, flutter, giggle, hiccup, mumble, murmur, jangle, rattle, sizzle, rustle and 21 more...
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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position (dynamic)
( visual, descriptive, open list )
related:
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more:charismatic, lively, animated, shifting, permeate, wobble, shimmer, sparkle, flex, pizzazz, chaos, fractal and 47 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
Scribble, Newfangled, swift, swathe, budget, obstreperous, trickle, rank, covetous, scratch, hunch, dodge and 179 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
Tweets
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gangerh It’s the fourth leg of the table that causes the wobble. Feb 14, 2008