wamble
IPA: wˈɑmbʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete) Nausea; seething; bubbling.
- (dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
- (dialect) A rumble of the stomach.
- A surname.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "wamble" in Sentences
- "She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively.
- Feeling her stomach wamble, she swallowed; dizziness threatened to overcome her.
- And they seemed extremely wamble-cropt and chop-fallen; their feathers shone not, even their sickle-feathers drooped in the dust, and their combs were white.
- 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.
- Most of us when we fall on the pavement (did you ever try it on Chestnut between Sixth and Seventh on a slippery day?) curse the granolithic trust and wamble there groaning.
- It's books like this that also remind me it will soon be the day that I head off for that first spring 'traypse and wamble' along the lanes and over the way to the village of Sydenham Dameral.
- And sometimes, about two o'clock of an afternoon (these spells come most often about half an hour after lunch), the old angel of peregrination lifts himself up in me, and I yearn and wamble for a season afoot.
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