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Definition of wobbly in English: wobblyadjectivewobbliest, wobblier ˈwɒbliˈwɑb(ə)li 1Tending to move unsteadily from side to side. the car had a wobbly wheel Example sentencesExamples - More minor things also contribute, like pitted headsets, untrue wheels, wobbly tires and out-of-balance wheels.
- It would seem that my hands may have been a tad shaky, or the flooring in the old legion was wobbly, causing the pictures to be fuzzy.
- On the other hand, the arias, despite some dangerously unstable passages and wobbly intonation from the orchestra, were excellent.
- It got off to a shaky start, what with wobbly bridges and collapsing domes.
- It's only the e-commerce equivalent of an electronic shopping cart developing a wobbly wheel, so you can only make it turn left - just like a real shopping cart.
- You pack all your worldly goods into the car, travel to a muddy field, transfer all your worldly goods into a wobbly tin box on wheels and then sit and wait for the monsoon to begin.
- Rico dribbled down the center not bothering to look up at his other teammates until Riley stole the ball from him, and threw a wobbly pass all the way down to the other side of the court.
- This is a New York institution, complete with supercilious staff, wobbly tables covered with red and white chequered tablecloths and walls lined with faded photos of prize fighters.
- He did the odd bit of crime solving too of course but that always came a poor second to the mayhem he caused by moving a pen across a room in a wobbly way using only his cloak of invisibility, some strong thread and an intricate pulley system.
- Would you guys seriously consider putting bungees on say, the wobbly front wheel of your car?
- Most of the shots on Friday night were static, and when they weren't, they were wobbly.
- Maybe you should re-spike your studs to your silt, because they were wobbly in the first place.
- There was a concrete floor and wobbly chairs.
- Carefully transfer to the oven and bake for about 50 minutes, until the centre is still wobbly but the edges set.
- Because no rifle - not even a match-tuned masterpiece of the gunsmith's art - can shoot off a rickety, wobbly bench.
- It took slow, wobbly steps, cantering to one side every time it stepped with its front left foot.
- One was moving very erratically, back and forth in a wobbly motion.
Synonyms unsteady, unstable, shaky, rocky, rickety flimsy, frail, spindly, unsafe, precarious, insecure uneven, unbalanced informal teetery British informal wonky, dicky - 1.1 (of a person) weak and unsteady from illness, tiredness, or anxiety.
she still felt a bit wobbly on her legs Example sentencesExamples - We quickly moved to the front of the ragged pack, a dozen or so wobbly tourists and a few real riders.
- I'll not have my best student coming back with a weak sword arm and wobbly legs.
- Of course, quit exercising if you're dizzy or nauseated, start sweating heavily, or feel so weak and wobbly that you can't maintain your form.
- She was wobbly from her near drowning, but managed to stand after a few attempts.
- I do love the wobbly men at the end of the Marathon.
- ‘But I was so wobbly that I had to have someone either side of me in case I fell,’ he said.
- The Penguin, as the short, wobbly man had become known to Danni and me on our walk, pushed us in and shut the door, leaving us with the military man.
- He was still wobbly on his feet but they got there OK.
- I started to feel very weak and wobbly and my legs gave way beneath me and I collapsed.
- No wonder he is more wobbly after all that drink.
- Crying out in pain, Dawn broke free from the kiss and on wobbly legs moved away from Nikolas.
- Miette finally pushed herself into a sitting position, still slightly wobbly.
- The strange young man pulled himself unsteadily to his wobbly feet.
- I must have looked like I was totally drunk as I was very wobbly, and the quarter of an hour walk back from the train station seemed to take me hours.
- I also like the prospect of being one of those wobbly men at the end of the race, who are extremely close to absolute exhaustion, but still manage to complete the task.
- My head feels like someone set off a bomb in it, and I'm wobbly on my feet, but at least I don't feel sick.
- The shorter girl was suddenly wobbly as they pulled on their coats and linked hands again.
- Her dad followed her as quickly as he could and seemed to have slightly wobbly legs.
- I was wobbly and unsure of myself as I pushed down on the pedal, propelling the bike slowly forward.
- Her legs were slightly wobbly, but she guessed that was what she got for going to bed on nothing but medication and a martini.
- Owen snapped at the wobbly man, but the look on his face told everyone that he was enjoying getting Aidan back for what he had done.
- But reach it they did; once again, Myoga held the door open for his wobbly guest, and Deuce stepped inside the lavish room.
- ‘On my third week of radiotherapy I had laryngitis and that left me feeling very weak and wobbly so I couldn't train then,’ she said.
Synonyms shaky, trembling, shaking, tremulous, quivering, quivery, doddery, unsteady informal trembly faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy weak, weak-kneed, weak at the knees, quivery, unsteady, groggy, muzzy informal trembly, all of a tremble, all of a quiver, like jelly, with rubbery legs, woozy rare vertiginous - 1.2 Uncertain, wavering, or insecure.
the evening got off to a wobbly start Example sentencesExamples - He's not wobbly, he never wavers, he never straddles the line between two sides.
- It was more along the lines of a very uncertain, wobbly romance that might fall apart at any second.
- Martin clearly had the most to lose in the debate, as in the election; under attack from all sides and able to rely only on his wits, wobbly as they seem to be, he performed about as well as might have been expected.
- In the first debate I thought he put on a solid performance while the president was wobbly.
- I think my Nokia problem stems from a wobbly disconnect that I attempted when I noticed someone had sent me a 2.5 MB attachment.
- The system in this country is so insecure and so wobbly.
- But after a slightly wobbly start to the campaign, where the Blues' defence leaked in goals at an alarming rate, the ship has been steadied.
- But even that, I want to show, is based upon some very wobbly figures.
- 1.3 (of a person or voice) tending to move out of tone or slightly vary in pitch.
Example sentencesExamples - Charlotte Church shot to fame as the little schoolgirl with the big wobbly voice.
- The little girl's voice was wobbly as she cried.
- ‘Please,’ she begged, and her voice was wobbly and high, as if she was struggling not to cry.
- Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular.
- Alexander Tekeliev's bass was a good clear voice, on the light side, but a welcome distance from the thick wobbly basses who manage to hit every and no note with their vast spongy vibratos.
- Her voice was wobbly and shaky, she sniffed a bit and changed how she sat again.
- I hoped he hadn't noticed how wobbly my voice was.
- The voice in my head is wobbly and hesitant but it seems to echo slightly as I freeze in utter astonishment.
- He raised his wobbly voice and began talking in tangents about why he wrote the article.
- This British musical certainly holds its own against Hollywood rivals of the same era, although the chorus lines tend to be slightly wobbly.
- Again, her pitch was very wobbly and she was trying way too hard to trill it.
- His voice was wobbly when he spoke, and he was barely able to form the words on his tongue.
- His deep, strong southern voice was getting wobbly, and his eyes welled as the realization of his firing a few weeks earlier sunk in.
- A small, wobbly voice cut through the comforting blackness and oblivion, just audible above the constant hiss of the waves breaking on the slimy, moss-covered stone outside.
- ‘I'm a princess,’ she said in a wobbly voice before putting her thumb in her mouth.
- The voice was wobbly and anxious and seemed to be issuing from the coatroom in the corner of the grand sitting room.
- In Dragoni's first big scene she was wobbly, her voice broke, she tried singing lower, and crumbled on every big note.
- Between their thick and wobbly tones and my horrible drawl, it's been a struggle.
- 1.4 (of a line or handwriting) not straight or regular.
Example sentencesExamples - Grace and Vahn the title said, in Ellie's large, wobbly handwriting.
- Lustig added that the writing was wobbly, so she gave high praise to the Issaquah mail-sorting system.
- Being short, as I was, the six lines of wobbly nonsense which I'd managed to scrawl were about two and a half feet off the floor, but what they lacked in visibility, they made up for in determination.
- They had each marked their individual affidavits with a wobbly cross, for few can write their names.
- The letters were black felt-tip, scrawled across the paper in giant wobbly letters.
- I noticed that she neglected to sign it, and her handwriting was rather wobbly and etchy, as if her hand was shaking when she wrote it.
noun ˈwɒbli British informal 1A fit of temper or panic. my daughter threw a wobbly when I wouldn't let her play Example sentencesExamples - Gloria is liable to throw a wobbly at the mere mention of ‘four eyes’.
- It's reassuring, in a way, when these technological things throw a wobbly.
- If the Prime Minister said that he would like darts to become a recognised sport, would the Minister for Sport and Tourism throw a wobbly?
- Take this one insurance company, for example, which last week threw a wobbly over the £2m pay-off for, former British Airways boss.
- Then for some reason my PC decided to throw a wobbly.
- It helps to pass away those long hours stuck on a plane or stuck in some foreign airport due to traffic controllers throwing a wobbly.
- And when my grand-children cluster round me and ask what it was like when he threw a wobbly on a daytime chatshow, what a story I will have to tell.
- I had a fight with Josh, and threw a wobbly with everyone else to get my own way.
Synonyms fit of temper, fit of rage, fit of pique, fit, outburst, flare-up, blow-up, pet, paroxysm, frenzy, bad mood, mood, huff, scene - 1.1the wobblies A fit of panic.
the driver was having an attack of the wobblies
Derivatives noun The room's wobbliness ceased slightly and she was able to discern that she was in a large bed surrounded in something. Example sentencesExamples - I am sorry to report signs of distinct wobbliness in this week's episode, Chosen Realm.
- Let's catalog those statements and let them answer for their cowardice and wobbliness.
- Bryce swallowed and glanced toward the door, judging the distance versus his current state of wobbliness.
- I felt very well, apart from some slight wobbliness at the end of day three as I was packing up.
- By way of punishment, we were to spend every day after school for a whole two weeks tightening up the screws on every single chair in the establishment, and hammering home wooden wedges to ensure that wobbliness was a thing of the past.
- Rich salt-mines created a town not only of great substance but also of great wobbliness, as the saltworks wreaked architectural havoc for over 1100 years.
- The course of the disease is similar in all species, starting with a little wobbliness or memory loss, then progressing to full dementia and death, usually in the space of a few months.
- Further, the interview seems to have been done with a hand-held camera, and the wobbliness of the picture gets distracting at times.
- Arsenal's defence is looking Manchester United-esque in it's wobbliness at the moment, while their midfield is being completely over-run.
Definition of wobbly in US English: wobblyadjectiveˈwäb(ə)lēˈwɑb(ə)li 1Tending to move unsteadily from side to side. the car had a wobbly wheel Example sentencesExamples - Because no rifle - not even a match-tuned masterpiece of the gunsmith's art - can shoot off a rickety, wobbly bench.
- It got off to a shaky start, what with wobbly bridges and collapsing domes.
- More minor things also contribute, like pitted headsets, untrue wheels, wobbly tires and out-of-balance wheels.
- Maybe you should re-spike your studs to your silt, because they were wobbly in the first place.
- This is a New York institution, complete with supercilious staff, wobbly tables covered with red and white chequered tablecloths and walls lined with faded photos of prize fighters.
- Carefully transfer to the oven and bake for about 50 minutes, until the centre is still wobbly but the edges set.
- Rico dribbled down the center not bothering to look up at his other teammates until Riley stole the ball from him, and threw a wobbly pass all the way down to the other side of the court.
- It's only the e-commerce equivalent of an electronic shopping cart developing a wobbly wheel, so you can only make it turn left - just like a real shopping cart.
- Most of the shots on Friday night were static, and when they weren't, they were wobbly.
- One was moving very erratically, back and forth in a wobbly motion.
- It would seem that my hands may have been a tad shaky, or the flooring in the old legion was wobbly, causing the pictures to be fuzzy.
- It took slow, wobbly steps, cantering to one side every time it stepped with its front left foot.
- You pack all your worldly goods into the car, travel to a muddy field, transfer all your worldly goods into a wobbly tin box on wheels and then sit and wait for the monsoon to begin.
- On the other hand, the arias, despite some dangerously unstable passages and wobbly intonation from the orchestra, were excellent.
- He did the odd bit of crime solving too of course but that always came a poor second to the mayhem he caused by moving a pen across a room in a wobbly way using only his cloak of invisibility, some strong thread and an intricate pulley system.
- There was a concrete floor and wobbly chairs.
- Would you guys seriously consider putting bungees on say, the wobbly front wheel of your car?
Synonyms unsteady, unstable, shaky, rocky, rickety - 1.1 (of a person or their legs) weak and unsteady from illness, tiredness, or anxiety.
Example sentencesExamples - Her dad followed her as quickly as he could and seemed to have slightly wobbly legs.
- Miette finally pushed herself into a sitting position, still slightly wobbly.
- I also like the prospect of being one of those wobbly men at the end of the race, who are extremely close to absolute exhaustion, but still manage to complete the task.
- ‘On my third week of radiotherapy I had laryngitis and that left me feeling very weak and wobbly so I couldn't train then,’ she said.
- I do love the wobbly men at the end of the Marathon.
- Of course, quit exercising if you're dizzy or nauseated, start sweating heavily, or feel so weak and wobbly that you can't maintain your form.
- Her legs were slightly wobbly, but she guessed that was what she got for going to bed on nothing but medication and a martini.
- I was wobbly and unsure of myself as I pushed down on the pedal, propelling the bike slowly forward.
- The Penguin, as the short, wobbly man had become known to Danni and me on our walk, pushed us in and shut the door, leaving us with the military man.
- The strange young man pulled himself unsteadily to his wobbly feet.
- Crying out in pain, Dawn broke free from the kiss and on wobbly legs moved away from Nikolas.
- ‘But I was so wobbly that I had to have someone either side of me in case I fell,’ he said.
- My head feels like someone set off a bomb in it, and I'm wobbly on my feet, but at least I don't feel sick.
- He was still wobbly on his feet but they got there OK.
- I'll not have my best student coming back with a weak sword arm and wobbly legs.
- I must have looked like I was totally drunk as I was very wobbly, and the quarter of an hour walk back from the train station seemed to take me hours.
- She was wobbly from her near drowning, but managed to stand after a few attempts.
- The shorter girl was suddenly wobbly as they pulled on their coats and linked hands again.
- But reach it they did; once again, Myoga held the door open for his wobbly guest, and Deuce stepped inside the lavish room.
- I started to feel very weak and wobbly and my legs gave way beneath me and I collapsed.
- We quickly moved to the front of the ragged pack, a dozen or so wobbly tourists and a few real riders.
- No wonder he is more wobbly after all that drink.
- Owen snapped at the wobbly man, but the look on his face told everyone that he was enjoying getting Aidan back for what he had done.
Synonyms shaky, trembling, shaking, tremulous, quivering, quivery, doddery, unsteady faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy - 1.2 (of a person, action or state) uncertain, wavering, or insecure.
the evening gets off to a wobbly start Example sentencesExamples - But after a slightly wobbly start to the campaign, where the Blues' defence leaked in goals at an alarming rate, the ship has been steadied.
- But even that, I want to show, is based upon some very wobbly figures.
- It was more along the lines of a very uncertain, wobbly romance that might fall apart at any second.
- In the first debate I thought he put on a solid performance while the president was wobbly.
- The system in this country is so insecure and so wobbly.
- I think my Nokia problem stems from a wobbly disconnect that I attempted when I noticed someone had sent me a 2.5 MB attachment.
- Martin clearly had the most to lose in the debate, as in the election; under attack from all sides and able to rely only on his wits, wobbly as they seem to be, he performed about as well as might have been expected.
- He's not wobbly, he never wavers, he never straddles the line between two sides.
- 1.3 (of a speaker, singer, or voice) having a tendency to move out of tone or slightly vary in pitch.
Example sentencesExamples - Again, her pitch was very wobbly and she was trying way too hard to trill it.
- Alexander Tekeliev's bass was a good clear voice, on the light side, but a welcome distance from the thick wobbly basses who manage to hit every and no note with their vast spongy vibratos.
- The little girl's voice was wobbly as she cried.
- He raised his wobbly voice and began talking in tangents about why he wrote the article.
- Between their thick and wobbly tones and my horrible drawl, it's been a struggle.
- The voice in my head is wobbly and hesitant but it seems to echo slightly as I freeze in utter astonishment.
- ‘I'm a princess,’ she said in a wobbly voice before putting her thumb in her mouth.
- His voice was wobbly when he spoke, and he was barely able to form the words on his tongue.
- Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular.
- A small, wobbly voice cut through the comforting blackness and oblivion, just audible above the constant hiss of the waves breaking on the slimy, moss-covered stone outside.
- ‘Please,’ she begged, and her voice was wobbly and high, as if she was struggling not to cry.
- Charlotte Church shot to fame as the little schoolgirl with the big wobbly voice.
- The voice was wobbly and anxious and seemed to be issuing from the coatroom in the corner of the grand sitting room.
- Her voice was wobbly and shaky, she sniffed a bit and changed how she sat again.
- This British musical certainly holds its own against Hollywood rivals of the same era, although the chorus lines tend to be slightly wobbly.
- His deep, strong southern voice was getting wobbly, and his eyes welled as the realization of his firing a few weeks earlier sunk in.
- I hoped he hadn't noticed how wobbly my voice was.
- In Dragoni's first big scene she was wobbly, her voice broke, she tried singing lower, and crumbled on every big note.
- 1.4 (of a line or handwriting) not straight or regular; shaky.
Example sentencesExamples - Lustig added that the writing was wobbly, so she gave high praise to the Issaquah mail-sorting system.
- Grace and Vahn the title said, in Ellie's large, wobbly handwriting.
- The letters were black felt-tip, scrawled across the paper in giant wobbly letters.
- They had each marked their individual affidavits with a wobbly cross, for few can write their names.
- I noticed that she neglected to sign it, and her handwriting was rather wobbly and etchy, as if her hand was shaking when she wrote it.
- Being short, as I was, the six lines of wobbly nonsense which I'd managed to scrawl were about two and a half feet off the floor, but what they lacked in visibility, they made up for in determination.
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