wamble

[ wom-buhl, -uhl, wam- ]

/ ˈwɒm bəl, -əl, ˈwæm- /

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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.

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Origin of wamble

1300–50; Middle English wamle, obscurely akin to Norwegian vamla to stagger

OTHER WORDS FROM wamble

wam·bli·ness, nounwambly, adjective

Words nearby wamble

waltz-length, waltz Matilda, Walvis Bay, WAM, wambenger, wamble, wame, wammul, wammus, Wampanoag, wampish

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How to use wamble in a sentence

After the same manner may you make two or three egges by a little practice to wamble one after another.
Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain|Unknown
When she'd read her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb.
Highlife in New York: a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick,|Ann S. Stephens
Didn't the poor leetle chap look wamble-cropped when he see that.
Highlife in New York: a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick,|Ann S. Stephens
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.
Vandemark's Folly|Herbert Quick

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.
With Drake on the Spanish Main|Herbert Strang

British Dictionary definitions for wamble

wamble

/ (ˈwɒmbəl) dialect, mainly British /

verb (intr)

to move unsteadily

to twist the body

to feel nausea

noun

an unsteady movement

a sensation of nausea

Derived forms of wamble

wambliness, nounwambly, adjective

Word Origin for wamble

C14 wamelen to feel ill, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian vamla to stagger

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