Etymology

wamble-cropped

wamb·le-crop·ped

Today it means: Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach. Full definition →

First used mid 16th c.
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The story

From wamble (“uneasiness in the stomach; nausea”) + crop (“(Britain, dialectal, especially Scotland) stomach”) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives).

First known use, by meaning

  • from mid 16th c. Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach.

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