Wamble
/ˈwɑm.bəl/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Nausea; seething; bubbling. obsolete
- 2 An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling. dialectal
"Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!"
- 3 A rumble of the stomach. dialectal
Verb
- 1 To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach). dialectal
- 2 move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion wordnet
- 3 To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over. dialectal
- 4 To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait. dialectal
"Sicily thought of sand flies and wondered how big they were, what color. […] Organs Sicily had not dared contemplate stomped and wambled and scuffed inside of her."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Etymology 2
Variant of Womble.