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say it: SHAY-kee
shaky is an adjective meaning "inclined to shake as from weakness or defect". It is pronounced /ˈʃeɪki/ — SHAY-kee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
“a quaking bog”
“the quaking child asked for more”
“quivering leaves of a poplar tree”
“with shaking knees”
“seemed shaky on her feet”
“sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier”
“trembling hands”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shaky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.