jiggly

adjective

Definition of jigglynext
as in rickety

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Recent Examples of jiggly The cheesecake rises like a souffle, with a jiggly center and a beautiful brown crust. — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026 Place the pie on the heated stone or skillet and bake until the edges are set and the center is still slightly jiggly, 40 to 50 minutes. — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026 Raw celtuce, a lettuce cultivar bred for its sweet stem rather than for its leaves, is cut into neat rectangles of a luminous parakeet green, interleaved with strips of jiggly kombu jelly, and plated atop a vermillion pool of Yongchun red vinegar. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026 The jiggly, quaking contraption is eye-catching—a natural social media star. — Julia Sullivan, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jiggly
  1. rickety
  2. jiggling
  3. doddering
  4. tottering
  5. precarious
  6. teetering
  7. infirm
  8. wobbly
Adjective
  • The possibility -- even likelihood -- of some rickety old thing collapsing under me never occurred to me.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
  • There followed an uncomfortable, lurching ride in a rickety old coach.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of rickety
Adjective
  • Its apparently smooth screen quickly dissolves into a jiggling lattice of molecules, which in turn resolve into clouds of electrons buzzing around atomic nuclei.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Every part of me that can jiggle is now jiggling.
    — Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
Definition of jiggling
Adjective
  • When a doddering Joe Biden threatened the party’s hold on the White House and foreshadowed a 2024 congressional wipeout, Pelosi used her considerable influence to not so gently ease the president aside as Democrats’ nominee for the White House.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • According to a recent study, stock prices decline when younger CEOs die unexpectedly, while the sudden deaths of the doddering and wizened drive price spikes.
    — Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of doddering
Adjective
  • In the tottering years, a bathing bird or blossoming flower will raise a thrill in you like only a game winning home run or a Disney World vacation used to.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Neither of them understands the other’s dynamic with Daniel, and the split-episode format keeps our sympathies teeter-tottering between each woman.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Definition of tottering
Adjective
  • Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has warned that AI stocks have become detached from financial fundamentals, pushing markets to precarious highs.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Duckett revived England from a precarious 52-4 with a 93-run stand with Sam Curran, who made 42 off 52 balls.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of precarious
Adjective
  • Vera handed over 10 boxes, one by one, until her arms were full and teetering.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 31 July 2026
Definition of teetering
Adjective
  • Outside stands a statue of an infirm John Paul II leaning on his papal staff — a reminder of the pontiffs who have been treated here, and of their earthly frailty.
    — Claudio Lavanga, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
  • But according to Galloway, shortly before his death in 1989, a friend came upon an infirm Olivier watching one of Leigh’s films.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of infirm
Adjective
  • Leatherman uses the example of tightening a screw on a wobbly picnic table to tie the bit tool into the Picnic theme, but the implement really seems far handier for EDC purposes than for serving or eating meals in the great outdoors.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The relentless Karlaftis didn’t record the Chiefs’ first sack of the game, but got enough of Kirk Cousins’ right arm to create a wobbly pass intercepted by Xavier Nwankpa.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of wobbly

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