wobble

Plural: wobbles

Noun

• an unsteady rocking motion
• An unsteady motion.
• A tremulous sound.
• A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
• A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid.

Verb

Verb Forms: wobbled, wobbling, wobbles

• To move unsteadily from side to side; to shake.
• move unsteadily
  • "His knees wobbled"
  • "The old cart wobbled down the street"
• move sideways or in an unsteady way
• tremble or shake
  • "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"
• To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
• To tremble or quaver.
• To vacillate in one's opinions.
• To cause to wobble.

Examples

• His confidence began to WOBBLE as his opponent kept playing bingos.
• I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.
• The boy wobbled the girl's bike.
• the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis
• The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.
• the jelly wobbled on the plate
• The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.
• There was a wobble on her high notes.

Synonyms

careen, coggle, shift, shimmy, tilt, falter, jiggle, judder, quaver, quiver, rock, shake, shudder, tremble, tremolo, vacillate, vibrato, waffle, waver, wiggle

Anagrams of wobble