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Wamble

//ˈwɑm.bəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

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."

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

From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).

Etymology 3

Variant of Womble.

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