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ˈwamfle, v. Sc.
[? Phonetically symbolic: of wampish v. and wamble v. 3 b.]
intr. To go about with flapping garments. Of garments, etc., to flap, flutter (in the wind).
1808Jamieson, To wamfle, to move like a tatterdemallion; conveying the idea of one moving about, so as to make his rags flap. Fife. 1825–82Ibid., It is also said of a vessel at sea; ‘Her sails were wamflin i' the wind’. Fife. 1864W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin ix. 87 Had she gotten a glisk o' my solitary swallow-tail, wamflin' in the wind. 1890Service Notandums iv. 20 The labies o' his sark were wamflin' in the win'. |