Adjective: wobbly (wobblier,wobbliest) wó-b(u-)lee
Usage: informal
- Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
"a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly";
- rickety, shaky, wonky [informal]
- [informal] Uncertain or insecure
"He was still wobbly on the new procedures"
Usage: informal
- A member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labour union
"The Wobblies fought for workers' rights in the early 1900s"
Derived forms: wobblier, wobbliest, Wobblies
See also: unstable
Type of: rad [informal], radical
Encyclopedia: Wobbly, Bobbly, Turnover and Stop