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wamble
[ wom-buhl, -uhl, wam- ]
verb (used without object)
, wam·bled, wam·bling.
- to move unsteadily.
- to feel nausea.
- (of the stomach) to rumble; growl.
noun
- an unsteady or rolling movement.
- a feeling of nausea.
wamble
/ ˈwɒmbəl /
verb
- to move unsteadily
- to twist the body
- to feel nausea
noun
- an unsteady movement
- a sensation of nausea
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Derived Forms
- ˈwambly, adjective
- ˈwambliness, noun
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Other Words From
- wambli·ness noun
- wambly adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wamble1
1300–50; Middle English wamle, obscurely akin to Norwegian vamla to stagger
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wamble1
C14 wamelen to feel ill, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian vamla to stagger
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Example Sentences
After the same manner may you make two or three egges by a little practice to wamble one after another.
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When she'd read her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb.
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Didn't the poor leetle chap look wamble-cropped when he see that.
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I felt just as good as any one, but I was a little wamble-cropped when I thought that I shouldn't know how to behave.
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Here's a fine blade, now, and a musket—give me a harquebus; I could shoot once, but my arm is all of a wamble now.
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