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jobbling

jobbling is the present participle and gerund of jobble.

Meaning of jobble

Verb

jobble (third-person singular simple present jobbles, present participle jobbling, simple past and past participle jobbled)

  1. To wobble.
    • At Malta there was a race between little sailing-boats; one boy slung his ballast under the thwart of his boat; there was a slight tumble in the sea; the boat jobbled up and down, but forged away from all the rest and won the race.1852, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, volume 1, page 347

Questions about jobbling

What is jobbling the present participle and gerund of?
Jobbling is the present participle and gerund of jobble.

Words near jobbling in the dictionary

  1. jobbings
  2. jobbish
  3. jobble
  4. jobbled
  5. jobbles
  6. jobbling
  7. jobby
  8. jobby jabber
  9. jobby jabbers
  10. jobcentre
  11. jobcentres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jobbling (page history and authors); jobble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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