Wobbly
See also: wobbly
English
Alternative forms
- wobbly
Etymology
Unknown
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
Noun
Wobbly (plural Wobblies)
- A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. [from 20th c.]
- Synonym: (slang) Wob
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 1,
- The gray man didn’t think I had any right to the card I had showed him, nor to the other one I had mentioned. He didn’t think I was a good wobbly. As chief muckademuck of the I. W. W. in Personville, he considered it his duty to get the low-down on me, and to not let himself be pumped about radical affairs while he was doing it.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 318:
- I drew myself up taller. I gave a beautiful account of my career with the Wobblies.
See also
- IWW
Anagrams
- Bowlby, blow-by, blowby, by-blow, byblow