what does shaky mean?
SHAKY as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- not secure
- beset with difficulties
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- Meaning
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
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- a rickety table
- a wobbly chair with shaky legs
- the ladder felt a little wobbly
- the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky
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- Meaning
- vibrating slightly and irregularly
- as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
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- a quaking bog
- the quaking child asked for more
- quivering leaves of a poplar tree
- with shaking knees
- seemed shaky on her feet
- sparklin
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