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wambles

wambles is the plural of wamble.

wambles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wamble.

Meaning of wamble

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.

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Proper noun capitalized: Wambles

Wambles

  1. (plural) plural of Wamble

Questions about wambles

What is wambles the plural of?
Wambles is the plural of wamble.
What part of speech is wambles?
Wambles is a proper noun.

Words near wambles in the dictionary

  1. wambengers
  2. Wamberal
  3. wamble
  4. wamble-cropped
  5. wambled
  6. wambles
  7. wamblier
  8. wambliest
  9. wambliness
  10. wambling
  11. wamblingly

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