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wibbly-wobbly

wibbly-wobbly adjective: tending to jiggle, quiver, or fluctuate.

Adjective

wibbly-wobbly (comparative more wibbly-wobbly, superlative most wibbly-wobbly)

  1. (informal) Tending to jiggle, quiver, or fluctuate.
    • (The late S. D. Szakall and Charles Coburn of the movies had the wonderful wibbly-wobbly jowls that this exercise suggests.)2001, Doe Lang, Charisma: Discover and Unleash Your Hidden Powers, Fine Communications, →ISBN, page 70
    • The Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.2007 9 June, Steven Moffat, "Blink", episode 3-10 of Doctor Who, 00:31:15–00:37:51

Forms of wibbly-wobbly

comparativemore wibbly-wobbly
superlativemost wibbly-wobbly

Questions about wibbly-wobbly

What does wibbly-wobbly mean?
Wibbly-wobbly means tending to jiggle, quiver, or fluctuate.
What part of speech is wibbly-wobbly?
Wibbly-wobbly is an adjective.

Words near wibbly-wobbly in the dictionary

  1. wibbles
  2. wibblier
  3. wibbliest
  4. wibbling
  5. wibbly
  6. wibbly-wobbly
  7. Wible
  8. Wibles
  9. WIBNI
  10. wiborgite
  11. Wibsey

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