Wobble

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wobble \Wob"ble\, v. i.
     See {Wabble}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  175 Moby Thesaurus words for "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