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
Other Word Forms
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
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
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
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
Huey's son whooped and wambled through the debate, arms waving and objections flying, as if bent on infuriating the rest of the Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the ninth Heeney was twice bumped to the floor, twice wambled up again.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he came to us his limbs seemed almost to have lost their joints, they wambled so.
From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John
He wambled up to her at last and asked for a letter she had filed for him.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
And here now his Stomach wambled more terribly than before; so that if his Friend were by, he must of necessity hold the Bason.
From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Krutch, Joseph Wood
Marilyn Monroe’s eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.
From Time ● Aug. 3, 2012
The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed.
From Time Magazine Archive
A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drawing is submerged in weak, declamatory, wambling brushstrokes; the color -- mostly pink -- is bright and boring.
From Time Magazine Archive
I feel the queerest wambling in my innards, as we used to say in Devon, at the sight of so many old faces.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry
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