Concept cluster: Actions > Unsteady or irregular movement
adv
Whilst jogging; with a jogging motion; with agitation.
adj
In the act of tottering.
adj
Wagging.
adj
wiggling
v
(transitive) To wag excessively or completely.
n
A wobbling motion.
v
To move or walk unsteadily
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(UK, intransitive) to shake; vibrate; tremor
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(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
n
A toy or other object intended to be aimlessly manipulated with the hands, in order to provide a pleasant distraction or relief from anxiety, frustration, boredom, etc.
n
Alternative form of fidgeting [A fidgety motion.]
v
(intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
adv
With a flapping motion.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
n
A flinching motion; a flinch.
v
(rare, intransitive) To wriggle.
v
(intransitive) To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
v
(slang) To get a person thinking; to encourage thought or cogitation.
v
(East Anglia) to be restless or fidgety
n
Synonym of head wobble (“Indian gesture”)
n
A slight repeated movement of the head to the left and right; a common gesture in Indian culture, with various affirmative meanings.
n
A stereotypic animal behaviour in which the head bobs up and down.
adv
With a heaving motion.
adv
(childish) Unevenly, with a hopping gait.
adv
With a hobbling motion.
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(intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
v
To jolt or shake.
v
(dated) To gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.
adv
In the manner of a jig, or lively dance.
v
(intransitive) To shake, rattle, or wiggle.
n
Quality of being jiggly.
adv
With a jiggling motion.
adj
Having a jolting motion.
n
The act or motion of one who jitters.
v
To wobble.
adv
With a jogging motion.
n
The act by which something is joggled, or shaken up and down.
adj
That joggles or shakes; loose; tottering.
adj
(Scotland) Shaky; trembling.
n
A movement, such as a jolt or a shake.
adv
With a jouncing motion.
adv
With a juddering motion.
v
To move from side to side, or fidget annoyingly, usually as a result of being nervous.
v
To move from side to side, or fidget e.g. with nervousness.
v
To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
adj
Moving with a lollop.
n
An emergent order in a multi-agent social system.
n
One who quavers.
adv
With a rippling motion.
n
A soothing rocking motion.
v
(intransitive) To walk with a swaying motion.
adv
With a scampering motion.
adv
With a scrambling motion.
adj
wiggly; wavy
adv
With a scuffling sound or motion.
adv
With a scurrying motion.
n
An awkward, irregular gait.
adv
With a shambling motion.
v
(Wales) To shake, jiggle.
v
Alternative spelling of shilly-shally [To procrastinate.]
n
Alternative spelling of shilly-shallying [The action of the verb]
v
(intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
n
(archaic) A jolting or shaking motion.
v
(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Alternative form of shoogle (“shake, rock rapidly”) [(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.]
v
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.
adj
Moving with a shuffling motion.
v
(transitive and intransitive) Alternative form of shoogle [(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.]
adj
Characterised by skipping movements.
v
To wriggle or squirm.
adv
With a strutting motion.
n
An italic capital letter with top and bottom flourishes, intended to fill an unsightly gap.
n
An animal with such excessive sagging.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To speak using a swazzle.
v
(rare) to wriggle, wiggle or squirm
adv
In a swishing way; with a swishing sound or motion.
adj
(colloquial) Having a whisking or wagging motion.
adv
(obsolete) quickly; swithe
n
One who teeters, who is about to fall physically or to give into temptation etc.
adv
(rare) In a tiptoeing fashion.
adv
With a tossing motion.
n
An unsteady movement or gait.
adj
Tending to totter.
n
(by extension) A person with an official role which involves facilitating social interaction.
n
(obsolete) A maker of tumults.
n
A wiggling movement.
adj
nimble; agile with one's feet
n
The motion of something that twitches.
n
Alternative form of wobbler [One who or that which wobbles.]
n
The motion of something that wabbles.
adj
Inclined to wabble; wabbling.
n
Wads collectively.
adj
Characterised by a waddling gait.
n
The act of one who waddles.
adv
With a waddling motion.
adj
Moving with a waddle.
v
(intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
n
An oscillating movement.
adj
Capable of wagging.
adv
With a wagging motion.
n
A dance in the form of a figure eight performed by the honey bee in order to communicate the direction and distance of patches of flowers, water sources, etc. that are more than 100 metres distant from the hive.
n
One who, or that which, waggles.
adj
Frequently waggling.
adj
having a tendency to wag
adj
Waggish.
n
(dialect) A churning of the stomach accompanied by nausea.
v
(intransitive) To move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
v
(intransitive) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To stagger; go in a zig-zag course; move with difficulty; struggle through.
v
(intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
v
(informal) To wobble or tremble lightly; to quiver.
adj
(informal) Tending to jiggle, quiver, or fluctuate.
adv
Alternative form of wigwag. [With a wigwagging or to-and-fro motion.]
n
(informal) A seat where a person can move about in place, used to provide stimulation to children with conditions such as autism.
n
Anything that wiggles.
adj
(dated) Characterised or marked by wiggling
adj
Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.
adv
With a wigwagging or to-and-fro motion.
v
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait.
v
(Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
n
(slang) A Wobbly (member of the Industrial Workers of the World).
n
A condition of the cervical vertebrae that causes an unsteady, wobbling gait and weakness in dogs and horses.
n
(law, colloquial) A crime that may be charged as either a misdemeanor or an infraction.
adv
With a wobbling motion.
n
(colloquial, chiefly Britain) A wobbler; a fit of rage; a tantrum.
n
Alternative form of wobbulator [An electronic device primarily used for the alignment of receiver or transmitter intermediate frequency strips, often in conjunction with an oscilloscope; a swept-output RF oscillator; a variable capacitor driven by a voice coil; a main component of a FM circuit.]
v
To wag about with a wiggling motion.
n
Wiggle room.
n
Anything that wriggles.
adv
With a motion that wriggles.
adj
(informal) That wriggles.
n
One who zags.
adj
zigzagging.
n
Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc.

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