wabbly
Americanadjective
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The collie stood up, wabbly on one foot but able to stand, looking eagerly at Sandy, commencing to snuff the air.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
They got him on his feet and he seemed better, though still very wabbly.
From Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power by Wyn Roosevelt
At thought of him and of this, Jeff Poindexter, reperched on his wabbly piggin, wove his furrowed brow into a closer and more intricate pattern of cordial dislike.
From Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
You're making that poor little wabbly track of ours try to bear all sorts of mysterious and symbolic intensities of meaning.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
An elaborate evening dress may call for a higher heel than the one worn on the street, but it will not excuse the wabbly spindle heels sold girls by many ruthless concerns.
From Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl by Virginia M. Alexander
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