wamble-cropped

Adjective

wamble-cropped (comparative more wamble-cropped, superlative most wamble-cropped)

1. Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach.
   • [A prattler or babbler] inquireth further, hovv many columnes are in the Odeus: and yeſterday he ſayth, I vvas vvamble-cropt, and (ſauing your preſence) parbrak't: And vvhat day of the moneth is this? But if any man lend him attention, he ſhall neuer be cleare of him.a. 1611 (date written), Theophrastus, “Theophrasti Characteres Ethicæ: Theophrastus His Morall Characters: Or Description of Maners. 3. Of Garrulitie.”, in Jo[hn] Healey, transl., Epictetus Manuall....
   • When she'd read her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb.1843, Jonathan Slick [pseudonym; Ann Sophia Stephens], “Letter XI. Visit to the Park Theatre.—First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as Written on the Air, in the Ærial Fetes of Mademoiselle...

   Synonyms:

   crapulous, barfy, mawkish, nauseated, nauseatic, pukey, pukish, queasy, sick, sick to one's stomach

2. (figuratively) Feeling uneasy; anxious, worried.
   • They went off grumbling, and consarnedly wamble-cropped, for a reward had been offered for the purty French gal's brother, and the etarnal scamp meant to git his revenge on her and money to boot.1843, Jonathan Slick [pseudonym; Ann Sophia Stephens], “Letter XI. Visit to the Park Theatre.—First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as Written on the Air, in the Ærial Fetes of Mademoiselle...
   • [W]hen he asked me if I was scared of the Bunkers, it nettled me; […] I felt just as good as any one, but I was a little wamble-cropped when I thought that I shouldn't know how to behave.1922, [John] Herbert Quick, “I Save a Treasure, and Start a Feud”, in Vandemark’s Folly, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 267