womble
womble is the alternative spelling of wamble.
womble is the alternative spelling of Womble.
Meaning of wamble
Noun
wamble (plural wambles)
- Nausea; seething; bubbling.
- 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
- A rumble of the stomach.
Noun (1)
womble (plural wombles)
- A person from the Wimbledon area of London, England.
Verb
womble (third-person singular simple present wombles, present participle wombling, simple past and past participle wombled)
- To carry out the activities associated with the fictional creatures; especially, to tidy and pick up litter.
- Underground, overground, wombling free / The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we1974, The Wombling Song, lyrics by Mike Batt
- 2024 transitionbath.org news report about litter picking https://transitionbath.org/bath-wombles-go-wombling-along-the-river/
Bath Wombles go wombling along the river
Noun (2) capitalized: Womble
Womble (plural Wombles)
- A fictional pointy-nosed furry creature. They are supposed to live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways.
- Wombles are a bit like teddy bears to look at but they have real claws and live underneath Wimbledon Common and devote their lives to ‘tidying up’ all the things those untidy Human Beings leave behind.1968, Elisabeth Beresford, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- A person who emulates the fictional creatures by tidying and picking up litter.
- A nickname of Wimbledon Football Club.
Proper noun capitalized: Womble
Womble
- A surname.
Forms of womble
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wombles |
| plural | Wombles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wombles |
| present participle | wombling |
| past participle | wombled |
| past | wombled |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Wamble |
Origin of womble
Created by author Elisabeth Beresford; they originally appeared in a series of children's novels from 1968. The name was suggested to the author by her young daughter's mispronunciation of the place name "Wimbledon" as "Wombledon" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8226039/Elisabeth-Beresford.htmlhttps://www.tidybag.uk/people/interview-with-elisabeth-beresford-daughter/. The books centre on the activities of a group of the creatures who live on Wimbledon Common.
Words formed from womble
Phrases with womble
Questions about womble
- What does womble mean?
- Womble means a person from the Wimbledon area of London, England.
- What is womble the alternative spelling of?
- Womble is the alternative spelling of wamble.
- What part of speech is womble?
- Womble can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of womble?
- The plural of womble is wombles.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: womble (page history and authors); Womble (page history and authors); wamble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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