wobbles
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]wobbles pl (plural only)
- (informal, chiefly Australia) Unsteadiness on one's feet, wheels, etc.
- 2022 February 16, “Luke's wheeling his way to raising greater A-T awareness”, in NDIS[1]:
- "We thought everything was alright, then when Luke started to walk we noticed he got the wobbles, and they never left, eight months later he was diagnosed with A-T," she said.
- (informal, chiefly Australia) Nervousness which prevents someone from performing properly.
- Synonym: yips
- 2006, Roland Perry, The Ashes: A Celebration, Random House (Australia), →ISBN:
- England had the wobbles at 4 for 109 and a lead of 115.
- 2022 June 22, Guy Rundle, “The right is coming apart — and Labor needs to step up and help it self-destruct”, in Crikey[2]:
- You'd have to be impressed with the way the right is stuffing up the post-election transition into opposition. It had the wobbles from the start, electing Peter Dutton as its leader and promptly trying to soften his image.
Noun
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Verb
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- third-person singular simple present indicative of wobble