shimmy

1. 1.

   tremble or shake

   “His voice wobbled with restrained emotion”

   Synonymswobble

   Broadervibrate
2. 2.

   dance a shimmy

   Broaderdance

   dancing

Other forms of shimmy

plural

shimmies·

past tense or participle

shimmied

present participle

shimmying·

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.

Questions about shimmy

What does shimmy mean?

shimmy means "an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shimmy?

shimmy has 2 syllables: shim-my. The stress falls on "shim". In IPA it is /ˈʃɪmi/.

What is another word for shimmy?

Close synonyms include chemise, shift, slip, teddy, wobble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shimmy a common word?

shimmy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.