shaky

English edit

shake +‎ -y

shaky (comparative shakier, superlative shakiest)

Shaking or trembling.
a shaky spot in a marsh

a shaky hand
Nervous, anxious.
He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.
- 2006, Paul A. Grayson, Philip W. Meilman, College Mental Health Practice, page 11:
  For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?
- 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:
  Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.
(of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
shaky timber
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.
Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
a shaky constitution

shaky business credit
Wavering; undecided.

(not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, unsteady, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

unstady, wobbly

shaking

full of cracks

unsound