Meaning & use

Wabble

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A chiefly dialectal spelling variant of 'wobble,' meaning to move unsteadily from side to side.

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The old cart wabbled along the rutted farm road.

His voice wabbled with nervousness during the speech.

A note on using this word

Once common in older printed texts, 'wabble' has been almost entirely replaced by the spelling 'wobble' in modern English.

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Words with an opposite meaning

steady

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