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WABBLY

Definition: WABBLY

WABBLY

Adjective

1. Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WABBLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Modern Translations: WABBLY

Language Translations for "WABBLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

σειόμενοσ (wabbler), ασταθήσ (choppy, erratic, inconstant, infirm, top heavy, tottering, tottery, unstable, unsteady). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abblyway

   

Russian 

  

шаткий (crazy, grog, groggy, shaky, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kolebljiv (halting, sensitive, shilly shally, staggering, vacillating, wavering, wishy washy), koji se njiše (waggly), koji se klati. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

хиткий (crazy, dicky, rickety, sandyish, shaky, tottery, waggly, weak, wobbly, wonky), вихлястий (wobbly). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lung lay loạng choạng (wobbly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "WABBLY"

Words rhyming with "WABBLY" (pronounced 'Wab"bly'): ASSEMBLY, Brambly, Bubbly, Crumbly, Doubly, Feebly, Hobbly, humbly, ignobly, Marbly, Nimbly, Nobly, Pebbly, Rubbly, stably, stubbly, Trebly, Unnobly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WABBLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-l-w-y"

-1 letter: bylaw.

-2 letters: ably, baby, bawl, blab, blaw, waly, yawl.

-3 letters: aby, alb, awl, bal, bay, lab, law, lay, wab, way, yaw.

-4 letters: ab, al, aw, ay, ba, by, la, ya.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WABBLY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 41 42 42 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    -...    -...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000001 01000010 01000010 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#66 &#66 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0042 0042 004C 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

573536364659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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