shoggly

(Scotland) shaky, giddy, unsteady, rickety.

Shoogly is a wonderfully expressive Scots dialect adjective meaning shaky, wobbly, unsteady, or rickety — the quality of something that trembles, tilts, or might collapse at any moment. Often used to describe a precarious chair, an unstable structure, or a person feeling physically unsteady. The word 'shoogly peg' is a well-known Scots phrase for an insecure position (to be hanging on a shoogly peg means your position is at risk). The word itself sounds exactly like what it means.

(UK, US, colloquial, dated) Shaky, rickety, ramshackle.

(dialectal) Loose-jointed, shambling.

(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.