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
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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 Thomas Hardy
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 John Brown
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 Sinclair Lewis
"She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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 Thomas Hardy
In the ninth Heeney was twice bumped to the floor, twice wambled up again.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We walked on like that all night; and in the blue o' the morning, when 'twas hardly day, I looked ahead o' me, and I zeed that he wambled, and could hardly drag along.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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 Joseph Wood Krutch
When he came to us his limbs seemed almost to have lost their joints, they wambled so.
From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy
Marilyn Monroe’s eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.
From Time ● Aug. 3, 2012
Titles, he said, made him "spew," created a "wambling" in his stomach.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed.
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
The "wambling" old men of Mr. Hardy come also to mind as one thinks of these old men of Mr. Masefield and Mr. Mayne and Mr. Boyle.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt
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