wamble

American  

[wom-buhl, -uhl, wam-] / ˈwɒm bəl, -əl, ˈwæm- /

verb (used without object)

wambled, wambling

1. to move unsteadily.

2. to feel nausea.

3. (of the stomach) to rumble; growl.

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noun

1. an unsteady or rolling movement.

2. a feeling of nausea.

wamble British  

/ ˈwɒmbəl /

verb

1. to move unsteadily

2. to twist the body

3. to feel nausea

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noun

1. an unsteady movement

2. a sensation of nausea

Other Word Forms

• wambliness noun
• wambly adjective

Etymology

Origin of wamble

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Ay, ’a will sit studding and thinking as if ’a were going to turn chapel-member, and then do nothing but traypse and wamble about. 

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

"She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas