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Webster 1913 Edition
Wamble
Wam′ble
,Verb.
I.
[Cf. Dan.
vamle
, and vammel
squeamish, ready to vomit, Icel. væma
to feel nausea, væminn
nauseous.] 1.
To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; – said of the stomach.
L’Estrange.
2.
To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
Wam′ble
,Noun.
Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wamble
WAMBLE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
wamble
wamble
English
Noun
wamble (plural wambles)
- (obsolete) Nausea; seething; bubbling; rolling boil.
- (dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 11
- Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 11
- A stomach rumble.
Verb
wamble (third-person singular simple present wambles, present participle wambling, simple past and past participle wambled)
- (dialect) To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
- (dialect) To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
- (dialect) To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 11
- She may shail, but she'll never wamble.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 11