Concept cluster: Actions > Unsteady movement
adj
Filled or covered (with something that flutters).
adv
With an ambling walk.
adj
Slithering.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.
adv
With a bobbing motion.
v
Alternative form of chounse [To freshen a pillow by shaking it]
n
The act of one who clambers.
adj
Moving about slightly.
adv
With a dabbling motion.
v
To do something nervously.
v
To hesitate in purpose or action.
v
(intransitive) To make rapid irregular movements.
v
(transitive) To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
v
(intransitive) To wave one's arms (or upper body) about violently, rather like a flail.
n
A flailing action or motion.
adj
Acting like a flail; flailing.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To be frightened.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To flutter or flap.
v
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
adv
With a flopping motion.
v
(archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
v
(intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
n
(figuratively) Any sudden activity; a stir.
v
(intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
v
(intransitive) To observe things idly.
n
Synonym of stomach staggers
v
To go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable.
adv
In a hopping way; with hopping motions.
v
(intransitive) To waver, or be uncertain.
adv
In a jumping way; with jumping motions.
v
(intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
n
the action of the verb to lurch
v
(intransitive, engineering) To wobble; to make a circular rocking motion.
v
(intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
adv
(obsolete) Quickly.
n
The merest trifle; a straw.
n
One who shimmies.
v
(dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
adv
With a slinking motion.
adv
With a slipping motion.
n
A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.
n
A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.
v
(intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
adj
(of a gait) uneven, as if walking on stilts
n
An irregular, spread-out group.
n
The motion of one who stumbles.
v
To stagger or totter; to walk feebly, as one who is fatigued.
adv
With a swirling motion.
v
(Scotland, Northern England) To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither.
n
A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance.
v
(figuratively) To be indecisive.
v
To stutter, stammer.
v
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
n
(physiology) The gradual increase in muscular contraction following rapidly repeated stimulation.
adv
With a tumbling motion or action.
adj
Moving by, or as if, tumbling.
v
to circle one's thumbs around one another, usually with the fingers interlaced, usually done idly while waiting or bored
n
One who vacillates.
v
(transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
v
wobble, move to and fro
v
(intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
v
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
adv
With a whisking motion.
n
(informal) Space to manoeuvre within an otherwise rigid system or framework.
n
(colloquial, law) A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
n
Alternative form of wobbulation [(electronics) oscillation between two frequencies, typically by means of a wobbulator]
n
(rare) Someone who would.
n
(informal) Someone who vacillates.

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