Etymology

wobble

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Today it means: An unsteady motion. Full definition →

Low German wabbeln
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  1. Low German · borrowed fromwabbeln“to wobble”
  2. English todaywobble

From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).

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