wamble
Americanverb (used without object)
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to move unsteadily.
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to feel nausea.
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(of the stomach) to rumble; growl.
noun
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an unsteady or rolling movement.
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a feeling of nausea.
verb
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to move unsteadily
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to twist the body
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to feel nausea
noun
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an unsteady movement
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a sensation of nausea
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Etymology
Origin of wamble
1300–50; Middle English wamle, obscurely akin to Norwegian vamla to stagger
Example Sentences
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Shall I speak, dear Warner? let me now; it does so wamble within me, just like a clyster, i'faith la, and I can keep it no longer, for my heart.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
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.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
Well, Master William, wamble not off your mother's lap, neither rattle in your excruciating way in an airn jug wi' an airn spoon; no more crowing like a cock, or skirlin' like a kenna-what.
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John
OLD MAN Well, come in and taste a drop o' sommat we've got here, that will warm the cockles of your heart as ye wamble homealong.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
It's a cheery sensation, you know, to find a man who has some imagination, but who has been unspoiled by Interesting People, and take him to hear them wamble.
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair
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