wobble

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An unsteady motion.

   The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.

2. noun A tremulous sound.

   There was a wobble on her high notes.

3. noun A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
4. noun A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid.
5. verb To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.

   the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis

6. verb To tremble or quaver.

   The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.

7. verb To vacillate in one's opinions.

   I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.

8. verb To cause to wobble.

   The boy wobbled the girl's bike.

Similar words

coggle sway tilt shift shimmy careen totter teeter swing oscillation

Often followed by

and in of hypothesis on or as is to

Word family

wabble wabbled wabbler wabblers wabbles wabblier wabbliest wabbliness wabblinesses wabbling