Wamble

Wamblename

• 1

  A surname.

wamblenoun/ˈwɑm.bəl/

• 1

  obsoleteNausea; seething; bubbling.

• 2

  dialectalAn 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

  dialectalA rumble of the stomach.

wambleverb/ˈwɑm.bəl/

• 1

  dialectalTo feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).

• 2

  dialectalTo twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.

• 3

  dialectalTo 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[…]