Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move in a weaving, wobbling, or rolling manner.
- intransitive verb To turn or roll. Used of the stomach.
- noun A wobble or roll.
- noun An upset stomach.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rumble, heave, or be disturbed with nausea: said of the stomach.
- To rumble; ferment, and make a disturbance.
- noun A rumbling, heaving, or similar disturbance in the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
- intransitive verb To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
- noun Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Nausea ;seething ;bubbling ; rolling boil. - noun dialect An unsteady walk; a
staggering orwobbling . - verb dialect To feel
nauseous , to churn (of stomach). - verb dialect To
twist andturn ; towriggle ; toroll over. - verb dialect To
wobble , tototter , towaver ; to walk with an unsteadygait .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Feeling her stomach wamble, she swallowed; dizziness threatened to overcome her.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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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.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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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.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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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.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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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.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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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.
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"She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
sionnach commented on the word wamble
to move unsteadily, to fee nausea, to growl (said of the stomach)
February 26, 2007
wordtron commented on the word wamble
“A piebald clown came wambling in to meet me, struck his hand on his foolish heart, and fell flat in the tan. Love at first sight.”
—Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
June 9, 2009
mollusque commented on the word wamble
. . . finally hearing returned—with a vengeance. The first crisp nurse-rustle was a thunderclap; my first belly wamble, a crash of cymbals.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 244
June 13, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word wamble
(verb) - (1) To rumble, as when the intestines are distended with wind; generally spoken of the stomach.
--William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
(2) To turn and twist the body, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over; also with about, over, and through. To roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
January 16, 2018