wamble

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈwɑm.bəl/

Definition of wamble

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)Nausea; seething; bubbling.
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noun

  1. (obsolete)Nausea; seething; bubbling.
  2. (dialectal)An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
    “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!”
  3. (dialectal)A rumble of the stomach.

verb

  1. (dialectal)To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
  2. (dialectal)To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
  3. (dialectal)To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.
    “Sicily thought of sand flies and wondered how big they were, what color. […] Organs Sicily had not dared contemplate stomped and wambled and scuffed inside of her.”
    “His leathery shoes exuded some anachronistic wonder, with damp shimmer of copper buckles which changed color with remedy, easily in the light, and he wambled this way and that to the kitchen and wondered to himself about the many lives[…]”
    “She may shail, but she'll never wamble.”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).

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