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wob⋅bly

  [wob-lee]
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–adjective, -bli⋅er, -bli⋅est.
shaky; unsteady.
Also, wabbly.

Origin:
1850–55; wobble + -y 1

Related forms:
wob⋅bli⋅ness, noun

Wob⋅bly

  [wob-lee]
–noun, plural -blies.
a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Origin:
1910–15, Americanism; of uncert. orig.
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wob·bly   (wŏb'lē)   
adj.   wob·bli·er, wob·bli·est
Tending to wobble; unsteady.
wob'bli·ness n.
Wob·bly   (wŏb'lē)   
n.   pl. Wob·blies
A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a chiefly US labor organization dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, active especially in the early 1900s.

[From I Wobbly Wobbly, humorous alteration of I(ndustrial) W(orkers of the) W(orld).]
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Wobbly 
1914, member of Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). Probably some sort of elaboration of the W aspect of the acronym.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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