WOBBLE, WOBBLING, WOBBLY
ADJECTIVES
1746 ► WEE-WAW askew; crooked; more on one side than the other; rickety, shaky, loose, unsteady, wobbling → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1824 ► RACKETY unstable, falling to pieces, ready to collapse, wobbly → Amer. dial.
1881 ► ON THE WAMBLE → UPON THE WAMBLE staggering, wobbling
1898 ► WOBBLEDY wobbly → Amer. dial.
1967 ► RACKILY unstable, falling to pieces, ready to collapse, wobbly → Amer. dial.
1967 ► RACKLETY unstable, falling to pieces, ready to collapse, wobbly → Amer. dial.
ADVERBS
1948 ► LAP-LEGGED in a lopsided or wobbly fashion → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1549 ► WARBLE to vibrate, to quiver; to wobble → obs.
1786 ► WABBLE to wobble; to walk unsteadily, to stagger, to totter, to rock on one’s feet, to waffle → Sc.
1822 ► WALLOP to dangle, to flap, to wobble → chiefly Sc. & colloq.
1887 ► FLOBBER to sag and wobble; to sag and collapse like a deflating balloon
1914 ► WEEWAW to set askew; to proceed unsteadily; to be shaky, wobbly or rickety → Amer. dial.
1927 ► WEE-WOW to be shaky, rickety, or wobbly → Amer. dial.
1935 ► YEE-YAW to swerve back and forth; to wobble → Amer. dial.