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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an unsteady rocking motion v
1: move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle]
2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
3: tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion" [syn: shimmy, wobble]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb also wabble (wobbled; also wabbled; wobbling; also wabbling) Etymology: probably from Low German wabbeln; akin to Old English w?fre restless — more at waver Date: 1657 intransitive verb 1. a. to move or proceed with an irregular rocking or staggering motion or unsteadily and clumsily from side to side b. tremble, quaver 2. waver, vacillate transitive verb to cause to wobble • wobbler also wabbler noun • wobbliness also wabbliness noun • wobbly also wabbly adjective II. noun also wabble Date: 1699 1. a. a hobbling or rocking unequal motion (as of a wheel unevenly mounted) b. an uncertainly directed movement 2. an intermittent variation (as in volume of sound)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wobble Wob"ble, v. i. See Wabble.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wobbles, wobbling, wobbled) If something or someone wobbles, they make small movements from side to side, for example because they are unsteady. The table wobbled when I leaned on it... I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path... VERB: V, V prep/adv • Wobble is also a noun. We might look for a tiny wobble in the position of a star. N-VAR

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To boil. Pot wobbler; one who boils a pot.

Moby Thesaurus

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