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wambly

wambly adjective: shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.

Adjective

wambly (comparative wamblier, superlative wambliest)

  1. (dialectal) Shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.
    • "[…]Come ben the house to a bit whisky. Ye're fair wambly wi' the fright o't.”
      I went shaking into the house with him,[…].1911, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, volume 88, page 482
    • She needs explaining, Markham—and a dashed lot of it.—And Rex, with his projecting parietals and his wambly body and his periodic fits.1928, S. S. Van Dine, “The Greene Murder Case”, in The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries, published 2013, page 563
    Synonyms:
    wimbly-wambly

Synonyms of wambly

  • wimbly-wambly

Forms of wambly

comparativewamblier
superlativewambliest

Origin of wambly

From wamble + -y.

Words formed from wambly

Questions about wambly

What does wambly mean?
Wambly means shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.
What part of speech is wambly?
Wambly is an adjective.

Words near wambly in the dictionary

  1. wambliest
  2. wambliness
  3. wambling
  4. wamblingly
  5. wamblings
  6. wambly
  7. Wamboin
  8. Wambold
  9. Wambolds
  10. Wambool
  11. Wambrook

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