Wamble
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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
- 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."
- 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
From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Variant of Womble.
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