wobbly

comparative wobblier · superlative wobbliest

1. Unsteady and tending to wobble.

   wobbly chair

   3 more examples

   wobbly bridge

   wobbly movement

   wobbly table

   Synonyms: precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady

plural wobblies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Wobbly.
2. CommonwealthIrelandUKcolloquialA wobbler; a fit of rage; a tantrum.

   Synonyms: tantrum, catfit, conniption, conniption fit, dummy spit, headfit, hissy, hissy fit

plural Wobblies · alternative wobbly

1. A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union.First known use 20th c.

   I drew myself up taller. I gave a beautiful account of my career with the Wobblies.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318

   1 more example

   The gray man didn’t think I had any right to the card I had showed him, nor to the other one I had mentioned. He didn’t think I was a good wobbly. As chief muckademuck of the I. W. W. in Personville, he considered it his duty to get the low-down on me, and to not let himself be pumped about radical affairs while he was doing it.

   1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 1, in Red Harvest

   Synonyms: Wob