🇬🇧🇨🇳 wobbly - 摇摇晃晃 : English Lesson

Meaning of "wobbly" ("摇摇晃晃"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Wobbly means shaky and not steady, like something that wiggles, tilts, or might fall over if you don’t hold it still.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My baby brother took his first wobbly steps and crashed right into the snack cabinet—best landing ever.

The chair was so wobbly that sitting on it felt like riding a baby earthquake.

The shopping cart wheel was wobbly, so it kept steering us toward the candy aisle all by itself.

The snowman’s head was so wobbly it kept nodding yes to everything we said.

A flamingo can sleep standing on one leg without getting wobbly—if I tried that, I’d fall over in three seconds.

A child carried a wobbly stack of books across the kitchen. The top book was wobbly, the middle one was wobbly, and the whole pile felt wobbly in the child's arms. A cat brushed a wobbly tail against the stack; the child froze, then caught the books, laughed, and set them down safely, cheeks flushed with relief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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