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Wobbly † see 1923 quote Labor Slang 
n. a member of the International Workers of the World (I.W.W.).
- 1923 (1936) The origin of wobbly is thus given by Mortimer Downing, a member of the I.W.W. in its heyday: In Vancouver, in 1911, we had a number of Chinese members, and one restaurant keeper would trust any member for meals, He could not pronounce the letter w, but called it wobble, and would ask: "You I. Wobble Wobble ?" and when the card was shown credit was unlimited. Thereafter the laughing term among us was I. Wobbly Wobbly.
- 1963 Grogan could find no sympathetic ear to listen to the Old Wobbly Theory, indeed it seemed that he himself was dead.
- 1923 (1936) The origin of wobbly is thus given by Mortimer Downing, a member of the I.W.W. in its heyday: In Vancouver, in 1911, we had a number of Chinese members, and one restaurant keeper would trust any member for meals, He could not pronounce the letter w, but called it wobble, and would ask: "You I. Wobble Wobble ?" and when the card was shown credit was unlimited. Thereafter the laughing term among us was I. Wobbly Wobbly.