Wamble

Quick meaning: Wamble is a noun meaning (dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.

Meaning

(dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.

More Meanings

1. (dialect) A rumble of the stomach.
2. (dialect) To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
3. (dialect) To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
4. (dialect) To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.
5. (obsolete) Nausea; seething; bubbling.

Example Sentences

She may shail, but she'll never wamble.

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.

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!

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[…]

Word Forms

• wambles
• wambling
• wambled

Synonyms for wamble

Depending on context, synonyms include waggle, reel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reel, waggle, womble, wobbly, wobble, wobbling.

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