wobble
UK/ˈwɒbl̩//ˈwɑbl̩/
wobble noun: an unsteady motion.
Noun
wobble (plural wobbles)
- An unsteady motion.
- The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.
- That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport
- A tremulous sound.
- There was a wobble on her high notes.
- A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
- “I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars. A dubstep wobble arrives about halfway through like a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms. Swift’s career.2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid.
Verb
wobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled)
- To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
- the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis
- the jelly wobbled on the plate
- To tremble or quaver.
- The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.
- To vacillate in one's opinions.
- I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.
- To cause to wobble.
- The boy wobbled the girl's bike.
- He said: “This front wheel wobbles.”
I said: “It doesn’t if you don’t wobble it.” It didn’t wobble, as a matter of fact—nothing worth calling a wobble.1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel
wobble meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
wobble in Hindi
- to wobble, stagger, sway; to stumble
- लड़खड़ाना laṛkhaṛānā
wobble in Tamil
- அசைவாட்டம், பிறழ்ச்சி, போக்குப்பிறழ்வு, ஈடாட்டம், தளம்பல், தள்ளாடு
wobble in Urdu
- چکرانا, ڈگمگانا, گھومنا, لڑکھڑانا
wobble in Bengali
- একটি অস্থির গতি, দোলা, একটি কম্পমান শব্দ, অমসৃণভাবে, দুলতে দুলতে গতি করা, কম্পিত
More languagesFewer languages
- wobble in Malayalam
- ചാഞ്ചാടുക, ഉലഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട് നടക്കുക, പതർച്ചയുളള
- wobble in Kannada
- ತೂಗಾಟ, ಓಲಾಟ, ತೂರಾಟ, ಅಲುಗಾಟ
- wobble in Persian
- لمبر lambar
Examples of wobble in a sentence
- The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.
- I adjusted the leveller built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled.
- I hit a pothole at high speed and my motorbike went straight into a death wobble.
Synonyms of wobble
Forms of wobble
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wobbles |
| alternative form (archaic) | wabble |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wobbles |
| present participle | wobbling |
| past participle | wobbled |
| past | wobbled |
Origin of wobble
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”).
Words formed from wobble
Phrases with wobble
Words that rhyme with wobble
Questions about wobble
- What does wobble mean?
- Wobble means an unsteady motion.
- What is wobble in Hindi?
- Wobble in Hindi is लड़खड़ाना (laṛkhaṛānā). See Wobble meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wobble?
- Wobble can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wobble?
- Wobble is pronounced /ˈwɑbl̩/ (US).
- What is the plural of wobble?
- The plural of wobble is wobbles.
Words near wobble in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wobble (page history and authors); लड़खड़ाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); wobble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wobble (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wobble (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wobble (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wobble (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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