wamble

plural wambles

1. obsoleteNausea; seething; bubbling.
2. dialectalAn 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. dialectalA rumble of the stomach.

present singular third person wambles · participle present wambling · participle past wambled · past wambled

1. dialectalTo feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
2. dialectalTo twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
3. dialectalTo wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.

   She may shail, but she'll never 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

   2 more examples

   Sicily thought of sand flies and wondered how big they were, what color. […] Organs Sicily had not dared contemplate stomped and wambled and scuffed inside of her.

   2014 May 6, Cathie Pelletier, Wedding on the Banks: A Novel, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 10

   His leathery shoes exuded some anachronistic wonder, with damp shimmer of copper buckles which changed color with remedy, easily in the light, and he wambled this way and that to the kitchen and wondered to himself about the many lives[…]

   2015 October 29, Carrie Chang, Monkey-Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

plural Wambles

1. A surname.