Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
coggle | a cobblestone (verb) to be unsteady, to wobble |
coggly | wobbly. |
didder | (Dial.) to shake. |
diddle | to cheat, swindle. |
dindle | (Scots) to tingle, vibrate. |
dinnle | (Scots) to tingle, vibrate. |
dirl | (Scots) to (cause to) vibrate. |
doddery | shaky. |
flacker | (Scots) to flutter. |
flaffer | (Scots) to flutter. |
flichter | (Scots) to flutter. |
flicker | a fluttering movement (verb) to flutter; to flap the wings without flying |
flickery | given to flickering. |
flitter | to vibrate or move quickly. |
flutter | a quick irregular motion (verb) to vibrate or move quickly |
flutteringly | (Adv.) FLUTTERING. |
hod | a V-shaped stemmed trough for carrying bricks or mortar on the shoulder; (verb) to bob or jog. |
hotch | (Scots) to hitch, jog. |
hotter | to vibrate, to tremble. |
jactitation | involuntary tossing and twitching of the body and limbs. |
jig | a lively dance; (verb) to dance a jig; to jump up and down. |
jigajig | with a rolling, jigging motion; (noun) to move with a rolling, jigging motion; (verb) to move with a rolling motion. |
jigajog | with a rolling, jigging motion; (noun) a rolling, jigging motion; (verb) to move with a rolling jigging motion. |
jigger | to jerk or shake; to confound. |
jiggish | jerky. |
jiggle | a jiggling movement (verb) to wriggle or frisk about; to shake up and down |
jiggly | given to jiggling. |
jigjig | with a jolting, jogging motion; (noun) a jolting motion; a jog; (verb) to proceed with a jigging motion. |
jink | to move suddenly, from side to side. |
jog | a slight shake or push; (verb) to run at a slow, steady pace. |
joggle | to move shakily or jerkily. |
joggler | one who joggles. |
jolt | a sudden jerk (verb) to jar or shake roughly |
jolter | one who, or that which, jolts. |
joltily | (Adv.) JOLTY, in a jolting manner. |
joltingly | (Adv.) JOLTING. |
jolty | in a jolting manner. |
jounce | to jolt, shake JOUNCY. |
jouncy | jolting. |
judder | a strong vibration (verb) to vibrate, shudder esp of a machine |
juddery | given to juddering > JUDDERIER, JUDDERIEST. |
libration | a slight swinging motion. |
librational | relating to libration, a slight swinging motion. |
lurch | a sudden roll or pitch; (verb) to sway abruptly. |
noddle | (Coll.) the head; (verb) to nod slightly. |
nutation | a nodding. |
oscillate | to swing to and fro like a pendulum. |
oscillative | having a tendency to vibrate. |
oscillatory | tending to oscillate. |
outrock | to surpass in rocking. |
pendulate | to swing as a pendulum. |
poss | to agitate clothes with a wooden stick in washing them. |
precess | of a spinning globe, top etc., to wobble. |
quake | a tremor, an earthquake (verb) to shake or vibrate |
quaker | one who quakes. |
quakily | (Adv.) QUAKY, quaking, shaky. |
quakiness | the state of being quaky. |
quakingly | (Adv.) QUAKING, shaking. |
quaky | quaking, shaky. |
quaverer | one who quavers. |
quaveringly | (Adv.) QUAVERING. |
quavery | shaky, quavering. |
quetch | (Dial.) to stir, move. |
quiver | a slight shaking (verb) to shake with a slight but rapid motion |
quiverer | one who quivers. |
quiveringly | (Adv.) QUIVERING. |
quiverish | shaky, quivering. |
quivery | quivering. |
ricketily | (Adv.) RICKETY, shaky, ramshackle. |
ricketiness | the state of being rickety. |
rickety | shaky, ramshackle. |
rockingly | (Adv.) ROCKING, moving back and forth. |
shakable | that can be shaken. |
shake | a tremulous motion (verb) to agitate |
shakeable | that can be shaken. |
shaken | (PaP.) SHAKE, to agitate. |
shaker | one who shakes. |
shakily | (Adv.) SHAKY, shaking. |
shakiness | the state of being shaky. |
shaky | shaking. |
shoggle | to joggle SHOGGLY. |
shoggly | (Dial.) shaky, rocking. |
shoogie | (Scots) to swing, sway back and forth. |
shoogle | (Scots) a swinging or swaying movement (verb) to swing, sway back and forth |
shoogly | (Scots) shaky, rocking. |
showd | (Scots) to rock to and fro. |
stagger | a sudden unsteadiness (verb) to walk or stand unsteadily |
staggerer | one who staggers. |
staggery | given to staggering. |
stoit | (Scots) to stagger. |
stotter | to stagger. |
succuss | to shake up. |
succussion | the act of shaking. |
swag | a curtain or length of material hung in folds; (verb) to sway, to sag. |
sway | a swinging or sweeping motion; rule; (verb) to move slowly back and forth. |
swayable | that can be swayed. |
swayer | one who sways. |
swayful | able to sway. |
swee | to sway, swing. |
sweepy | swaying, sweeping. |
swey | (Scots) to sway, swing. |
swing | a motion to and fro (verb) to move freely back and forth |
swung | (PaP.) SWING, to move freely back and forth. |
teeter | to wobble. |
thirl | to vibrate, thrill. |
titubant | staggering. |
titubate | to stagger; to stumble. |
toddle | to walk unsteadily. |
topple | to fall forward. |
totter | an unsteady walk (verb) to walk unsteadily |
totterer | one who totters. |
totteringly | (Adv.) TOTTERING. |
tottery | shaky > TOTTERIER, TOTTERIEST. |
totty | unsteady; tottery > TOTTIER, TOTTIEST; (noun) a woman or small child |
tremble | an involuntary shake (verb) to shake involuntarily |
trembly | given to trembling. |
tremor | a quiver, a vibration; (verb) to quiver. |
tremulous | trembling; quivering. |
tremulously | (Adv.) TREMULOUS, trembling; quivering. |
unshaked | (Shakesp.) unshaken. |
unswayable | (Shakesp.) not capable of being swayed. |
unswayed | not swayed, unpersuaded. |
upsway | to sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club. |
vibrate | to move back and forth rapidly. |
vibratingly | (Adv.) VIBRATING. |
wabble | (Obs.) an unsteady movement (verb) to wobble |
wabbler | (Obs.) one who wabbles. |
wabbly | wobbly. |
wag | a sideways movement; a droll person; (verb) to move from side to side. |
waggle | to wag WAGGLY. |
waggler | one who waggles. |
wagglingly | (Adv.) WAGGLING. |
waggly | waggling. |
walty | inclined to tip over or lean. |
wamble | to feel nausea; to move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion WAMBLY. |
wamblingly | (Adv.) WAMBLING. |
wambly | affected with, or causing, sickness; unsteady. |
wandle | (Dial.) supple, pliant, nimble; (verb) to walk haltingly. |
wankle | unstable or unsteady. |
wapper | to cause to shake; to tremble; to totter. |
wauff | (Scots) to wave. |
wave | a ridge on the surface of a liquid (verb) to move freely back and forth or up and down |
waver | to move back and forth WAVERY. |
waveringly | (Adv.) WAVERING. |
waverous | unsteady. |
wavery | waving. |
whiffle | to waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind. |
wibble | to wobble. |
wiggle | a wiggling motion (verb) to move with short, quick movements from side to side |
wintle | (Scots) to stagger. |
wobble | an unstead movement (verb) to move unsteadily |
wobbler | one who wobbles. |
yaw | of eg a plane, to move from right to left in a horizontal plane. |