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wamble

/ˈwɑm.bəl/

wamble noun: nausea; seething; bubbling.

Noun

wamble (plural wambles)

  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!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
  3. (dialectal) A rumble of the stomach.

Verb

wamble (third-person singular simple present wambles, present participle wambling, simple past and past participle wambled)

  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

Proper noun capitalized: Wamble

Wamble (plural Wambles)

  1. A surname.

wamble meaning in Urdu

wamble in Urdu

آنت کا قلقلانا, لرزنا, پیٹ میں مروڑ ہونا

Forms of wamble

Noun
pluralwambles
Verb
third-person singular presentwambles
present participlewambling
past participlewambled
pastwambled
Proper noun
pluralWambles

Origin of wamble

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

Variant of Womble.

Words formed from wamble

Questions about wamble

What does wamble mean?
Wamble means nausea; seething; bubbling.
What is wamble in Urdu?
Wamble in Urdu is آنت کا قلقلانا, لرزنا, پیٹ میں مروڑ ہونا. See Wamble meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wamble?
Wamble can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wamble?
Wamble is pronounced /ˈwɑm.bəl/.
What is the plural of wamble?
The plural of wamble is wambles.

Words near wamble in the dictionary

  1. Wambangalang
  2. Wambaya
  3. wambenger
  4. wambengers
  5. Wamberal
  6. wamble
  7. wamble-cropped
  8. wambled
  9. wambles
  10. wamblier
  11. wambliest

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