wamble
verbEtymology From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
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.2014 May 6, Cathie Pelletier, Wedding on the Banks: A Novel, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 10:
- 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[…]2015 October 29, Carrie Chang, Monkey-Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
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- She may shail, but she'll never wamble.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “Chapter 11”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: