Citations:wibbly-wobbly

English citations of wibbly-wobbly

Adjective: "(informal) tending to jiggle, quiver, or fluctuate"

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• 2001, Doe Lang, Charisma: Discover and Unleash Your Hidden Powers, Fine Communications (2001), →ISBN, page 70:

  (The late S. D. Szakall and Charles Coburn of the movies had the wonderful wibbly-wobbly jowls that this exercise suggests.)

• 2002, Karen McCombie, Blissed Out, Scholastic (2002), →ISBN, page 204:

  Ruth gives me the sweetest, wibbly-wobbly little smile and wiggles her fingers at me.

• 2006, Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, Berkley Jam Books (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  The sound fades in: our wibbly-wobbly sci-fi music over a dark background.

• 2007, Kathleen Bacus, Calamity Jayne Goes to College, Love Spell (2007), →ISBN, page 44:

  With all the uncertainty tied to my love life, the question that plagued me the most, the one that really needed an urgent answer was also the one most prone to cause compulsive nail-biting and obsessive appearance anxiety: Was I really ready to show my naked body — wibbly-wobbly bits and all — to someone who wasn't a medical professional and paid to look at it?

• 2007 9 June, Steven Moffat, "Blink", episode 3-10 of Doctor Who, 00:31:15–00:37:51:

  The Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

• 2009, Geri Halliwell, Ugenia Lavender, Macmillan Children's Books (2009), →ISBN, page 78:

  Her heart started to beat like a drum and her legs became two wibbly-wobbly jellies.

• 2014, Jenn J. McLeod, Simmering Season, Simon & Schuster (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Maggie didn't know what to say as she wiped tears of joy from her eyes and waved goodbye to the back end of Barney's semi-trailer with its 'Just Married' sign trailing about a million purple balloons, with Ethne's wibbly-wobbly arms waving frantically out the passenger window—all swallowed up by a billowing dust cloud.

• 2014, Candis Terry, Sweetest Mistake, Avon (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  He gave her an honest smile, and her traitorous heart went all wibbly-wobbly.