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woad | woad-waxen | woaded | woadwaxen | woald | wobble | wobbler | wobbling | wobbly | wodan | wode

wobble

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Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
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wob=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

wobblev. i. 
     See Wabble.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wobble, v. & n.
--v.
1 a intr. sway or vibrate unsteadily from side to side. b tr. cause to do this.
2 intr. stand or go unsteadily; stagger.
3 intr. waver, vacillate; act inconsistently.
4 intr. (of the voice or sound) quaver, pulsate.
--n.
1 a wobbling movement.
2 an instance of vacillation or pulsation.

Idiom
wobble-board Austral. a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument with a low booming sound.
Derivative
wobbler n.
Etymology
earlier wabble, corresp. to LG wabbeln, ON vafla waver f. Gmc: cf. WAVE, WAVER, -LE(4)

THESAURUS

wobble

alternate, amble, arrhythmia, back and fill, barge, bob, bobble, bounce, bowl along, brokenness, bump, bundle, capriciousness, careen, change, chatter, choppiness, clump, coggle, dangle, desultoriness, didder, disconnectedness, discontinuity, dither, drag, ebb and flow, eccentricity, equivocate, erraticness, falter, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, fluctuation, flutter, foot, footslog, go through phases, grimace, halt, have an ague, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hustle, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactitate, jar, jerk, jerkiness, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, nonuniformity, nutate, oscillate, pace, paddle, patchiness, peg, pendulate, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, plod, prance, quake, quaver, quiver, rack, reel, resonate, rictus, ring the changes, rock, roll, roughness, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw, shake, shamble, shift, shilly-shally, shimmy, shiver, shock, shudder, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stalk, stammer, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swag, swagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, tic, tittup, toddle, topple, toss, totter, traipse, tremble, tremor, trip, trudge, turn, twitch, twitter, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacillate, variability, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, wamble, wave, waver, wax and wane, weave, whimsicality, wiggle

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