wamblen.

/ˈwɒmb(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1700s– womble. Now only colloquial or dialect

Etymology: < wamble v.

1. A rolling or uneasiness in the stomach; a feeling of nausea; spec. see quot. 1899.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea

wlatingc725

unlusteOE

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flatingnessa1398

indignation1398

wambling1398

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subversion of the stomach1569

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distaste1598

nausiness1598

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mawkishness1670

qualminess1778

wambliness1900

icky1969

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 701 Our meat going downe into the stomacke merily, and with pleasure, dissolveth incontinently all wambles.

1865 J. Sleigh Attempt at Derbyshire Gloss. (E.D.D.) Wamble, faintness.

1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Wambles, an old popular term for Milk fever.

1902 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Lightning Conductor 48 There's another thing which gives me the ‘wombles’.

†2. An act of seething or bubbling up when brought to boiling-point. Obsolete. Cf. walm n. 3.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > agitation of liquid in boiling > an act of

wamble1620

1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 44 If you also boyle in it a quantity of ginger, three or foure wambles about,..it will be much the better.

1681 Sober Dial. betw. Stafford & the Lords 2/2 [Stafford, as a ghost from Hell loq.] Here is a parcel of cold Comfort, but I fear me not enough to mitigate one wamble of the great Lake.

1730 W. Burdon Gentleman's Pocket-farrier 16 Set it on [the Fire] again, and give it two or three Wambles.

3. An unsteady movement (of a person or thing); a roll of the body; a rolling or staggering gait. on or upon the wamble, staggering, wobbling.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > an unsteady movement

wamble1825

1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 370 When Knight's Quarterly Magazine took a pain in its head, and gied a wamle ower the counter in the dead-thraws.

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) ii The jump of the horse gave a jerk to the shaft, and this..gave a lollop to the near wheel, already on the wamble.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 Fancy..her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail-and-wamble.

Compounds

General attributive.

wamble-cropped adj. (now U.S.), affected with nausea, sick (literal and figurative).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of person

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qualmish1548

wamble-cropped1552

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keckish1603

nauseous1613

nauseative1620

sick1631

sick at (or to, in) the stomach1653

vomiturient1666

sick as a horse1705

qualmyish1831

squeamy1838

qualmy1846

queachy1859

squalmish1867

wambly1872

ill1928

naar1969

sick as a parrot1979

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wamble cropped, stomachichus.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 14 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) And yesterday, hee sayth, I was wamble-cropt, and (sauing your presence) parbrak't.

1798 Massachusetts Spy 5 Sept. 1/1 I feel a good deal womblecropped about dropping her acquaintance.

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. i. xxiii It makes me so kinder wamble~cropt, when I think on it, that I'm afeared to venture on matrimony at all.

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 44 I got back to the sloop and turned in awfully womble~cropped.

† wamble-stomached adj. Obsolete = wamble-cropped adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of person

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keckish1603

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nauseative1620

sick1631

sick at (or to, in) the stomach1653

vomiturient1666

sick as a horse1705

qualmyish1831

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qualmy1846

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squalmish1867

wambly1872

ill1928

naar1969

sick as a parrot1979

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wamble stomaked to be, nauseo.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wamblev.

/ˈwɒmb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English wamel, wamle, (Middle English wemel, Middle English wam(m)il, wamylle), 1500s wambel, Middle English, 1800s womble, 1700s waumle, 1800s wam(m)le, wammel, wamell, wemble, wommle, Middle English– wamble.

Etymology: Probably two or more verbs have coalesced. In sense 1 the word may correspond to Danish vamle to feel nausea, a frequentative formation on the Germanic root *wem.- : *wam- ( < Indogermanic *wem- : *wom- ; compare Latin vomĕre , Greek ϝεμ- , ἐμεῖν to vomit), whence Middle Swedish vami nausea, vomul nauseous, Swedish vämja (reflexive) to feel sick. A distinct root of identical form seems to be represented in senses 2 – 4, with which compare Norwegian vamla , vamra , to stagger, Old High German wimidôn , wamezzen to move, stir, modern German wimmeln swarm. In sense 5 there may be mixture of a metathetic form of walm v.; on the other hand in some uses walm may be a metathesis of wamble.

Now dialect.

I. Senses relating to feeling nauseous.

a. intransitive. To be qualmish, feel nausea.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of person: feel nausea

wamble13..

flatec1400

qualm1565

squeam1575

sickena1616

nauseate1625

13.. W. de Bibbesworth in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 84/2 Wamblez, laumber.

a1400 Nominale (Skeat) 268 Homme lambeie pur ordure. M. wemelith for fulthe.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 300 For þat mote in his mawe [Jonah in the whale's belly] mad hym, I trowe, Þaȝ hit lyttel were, hym wyth to wamel at his hert.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 515/1 Wamelon', yn the stomake (wamlyn, P.), naus(e)o.

1483 Cath. Angl. 407/2 To Wamylle, iliacare, navsiare.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxii. 91 He yat has a wayke calde stomak..oft tymes gantis and wamblis, bolkis with hevy suollen eyne.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 145 in Poems (1981) 9 His hart wammillis wyse argumentis to heir.

1500 Ortus Vocabulorum (W. de W.) B b v Nauseo..to wamble.

b. Of the stomach or its contents: to be felt to roll about (in nausea).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of person: feel nausea > of stomach

overcast?a1513

wamblea1529

walter?1544

turn1570

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii A howe my stomake wambleth I am all in a swete.

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xii. f. xliii Theyr fore fathers murmured in desert agaynst Moyses for manna, and sayed that theyr stomake wambled agaynst that lyght meate.

a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1276/1 Scant was the fruite passed downe both theyr throtes, when it so began to wamble in their stomakes.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Allecter, to wamble, as a queasie stomacke doth.

a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. B2/2 When..your cold sallets without salt or vineger Be wambling in your stomacks.

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iii. 23 I was never good at swallowing Physick: and my Stomach wambles at the very thought of it.

1746 Love Poem Physician in J. Swift Misc. XI. 266 My Bowels wambling make me spew.

1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. 148 This word..completely turned his stomach that had already begun to wamble at the sight.

1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1853) II. 266/1 No wonder, Master Ephraim, thy entrails are moved and wamble.

c. transferred and figurative. (Cf. sense 5.)

ΚΠ

1591 J. Lyly Endimion iv. ii. sig. G^v He is resolued to weep some three or foure payle-fuls, to auoyde the rume of loue that wambleth in his stomacke.

1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iv. ii [My soul] can digest a Monster, without cruditie, A Sin as weightie as an Elephant, And neuer wamble for 't.

1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 65 I have such a Plot..shall I speak, dear Warner? let me now; it does so wamble within me, just like a Clyster.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. i. 144 Vast Fires Subterranean..work and wamble in the Bowels of the Earth.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxiii. 350 I still saw the unleavened pride of womankind wambling within her.

1898 J. M. Cobban Angel of Covenant xv. 168 The pains o' love 'll work and wommle in the inside of ye like a knot o' adders!

II. Senses relating to twisting or unsteady movement.

2. To turn and twist the body about, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over. Also with about, over, through. Also figurative.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > roll or tumble about > of persons or animals

wallowc900

welter?a1400

rollc1405

wamblec1420

rumble?1516

tolter1529

shake1538

worblea1599

flounder1735

tousle1852

c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3213 When þat litull chylde was leyde a-doune byfore þe tombe..He womblede & tomblede on bak & wombe.

1755 R. Forbes tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 20 I len'd him sik a dird, As laid him arselins on his back, To wamble o' the yerd.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 63 At Diston's feet he lichtet fair, Wayme uppermost, and wamblit there.

1854 J. Wilson Let. in Mem. (1859) viii. 305 The cod-fish..laid their heads over each other's shoulders, and wambled about like a set of puppy dogs.

1861 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 756 I made an experiment on the log and found I could not get my chin six inches above the water level without wembling over.

1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xliii He have left off talking now for two days only to moan and to wamble.

a. To roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait. Also figurative.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily

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folder1607

wamble1611

to make a Virginia fence1671

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fribble1709

rock1718

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stoiter1724

swagger1724

doddle1761

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toit1786

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stot1801

dodder1819

twaddle1823

teeter1844

shoggle1884

welter1884

warple1887

whemmel1895

1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 148 Neede makes the olde wife trot. Nay she but wambles.

1677 A. Marvell Let. 6 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 289 I can not but wonder that.. you should so soon begin to wamble which is enough to discourage or turne giddy one of so weak a braine and experience. Surely, Brother, it is the best to steere steddy.

1822 J. Galt Provost xxxii. 240 The abominable and irreverent creature was so drunk, that he wamblet to and fro over the drum, as if there had not been a bane in his body.

1862 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 362 A long row of unfortunates are drawn up on each side of the quarter-deck, wombling and shambling and sniggering.

1893 W. S. Pasmore Stories Devon & Cornwall (1900) 36 As us was gwain down awver Bodmin 'ill I zimmed tha 'oss begin to wommle 'bout a bet.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) He wammelt up the stairs wi' the seck o' floor on iv his back, onyhoo.

b. Of things: to totter, waver; to move unsteadily, stagger, reel.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)]

hobblec1330

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fleet15..

titubate1540

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vacillate1598

waggle1611

wimple1819

wangle1820

waver1841

lurch1851

woggle1871

teeter1904

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1614 To wamble, or wag to and fro, as a crooked arrow wil doe, being shot out of a bowe, vacillo, sinuo.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 20 Like to a tower wambling on the sea.

1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 161 How the warl',..Hing's waumlan at a tether I' the air.

1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 82 To Wammel, To Wamble, to move to and fro in an irregular and awkward manner; to move out of a regular course or motion. Applied chiefly to mechanical operations.

1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man i. 7 His feet wambling one over the other like those of a mummer's bear.

4. transitive. To twist or turn (something) over and over; to turn (a thing) round or upside down.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > turn over and over or roll

trendc1315

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welter?a1400

rollc1400

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obvolve1649

pitch-pole1926

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 13 Let him hold it awaye a litle in the mouth, and wambel it round about in the mouth.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 23 Take..a farthing worth of flower to white him ouer and wamble him in.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wamble, to roll the meat in the mouth, when too large to swallow.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Wemble, to turn a cup upside down in token of having had enough tea. North.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) He wammelt his shillin.

III. Senses relating to seething.

†5. intransitive. Of water, the blood: to seethe, boil. = walm v. 2, wall v.¹ 2.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > boil [verb (intransitive)]

wallc1000

well?a1200

boila1225

seethea1400

ebulliate1599

qualm1599

walm1610

ebullate1623

wamble1636

wobble1725

1636 W. Davenant Witts ii. i. sig. D^v Now does my blood wamble! you! Sucket eater!

1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. To Wamble [as a pot] bullio.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Wamble, to rise up as seething Water does.

†6. To swarm (with vermin): = wall v.¹ 2b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with

wallc1000

to swarm in1482

wamble1485

scrawl1530

to swarm with1548

exceed1624

pullulate1641

sny1674

teem1710

spawn1818

1485 Trevisa's Higden (Caxton) (Rolls) V. 235 He wambled [earlier texts wallede, wellede] ful of wormes [L. uermibus scatens].

Derivatives

ˈwambling n. and adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea

wlatingc725

unlusteOE

abominationa1398

flatingnessa1398

indignation1398

wambling1398

wlatness1398

nausea?a1425

walmingc1440

loathsomeness1536

qualming1565

subversion of the stomach1569

queasiness1576

pukishness1581

squeamishnessa1586

distaste1598

nausiness1598

wamble1603

sickness1604

distasting1605

distasture1611

nauseation1628

nauseousness1628

qualmishness1643

nauseating1651

crop-sickness1654

squeasinessa1660

mawkishness1670

qualminess1778

wambliness1900

icky1969

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of stomach

squeamous1398

queasy1545

wambling1566

qualming1576

squeasy1596

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling

wallingOE

waveringc1425

surging1566

trilling1567

wambling1581

grown1600

surgeful1612

sourcinga1660

washing1697

flashing1744

under-rolling1745

jawing1802

rolly1885

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun]

yawinga1614

vacillation1633

titubation1643

wambling1680

teetering1845

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > agitation of liquid in boiling

walmOE

welling1371

boilingc1380

fervence14..

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play1440

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exaestuation1666

effervescency1681

estuation1684

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tottling1864

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [adjective]

waveringc1540

tilting1606

titubating1653

volatile1654

tittering1661

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teetering1845

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pecky1864

drunk1881

teetery1900

wambling1908

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xx. 207 To moche meete encreasyth humours and postumes and makith wamlynges and spuynges.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 95 Gif jt hapnis the ony hert wamblyng—egirly tak a vomyt of water and vynager.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii Ofte tymes suche a wamblynge goth ouer my harte yet I am not harte seke.

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 34 Noisome and lothsomenesse of stomacke, wambleyng of the harte, pulse not equall.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Av^v Confections sweete or tarte Theylle minge for the, such as beste lykes Thy quasye wamblynge hearte.

1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 193 For my sake Acheloe Did let his streaming bloud amid his wambling waues to floe.

1649 J. Taylor Wandering 18 If any one be queasie, or doe feele a wambling in the Gizzard.

1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate v. ii Yes faith have I [been in love], and have felt your Flames and Fires, and Inclinations, and Wamblings.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. ix. 283 Warmth..cast into a boyling Pot,..allayes the wambling of the Liquor.

1745 D. E. Baker tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Don Quixote I. i. iv. 24 I perceive by the many and powerful wamblings of my Brain, that I shall soon fall a-sleep.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xviii. 79 I am amazed at the repetition of thy wambling nonsense.

1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 128 We were obliged to cast anchor; which was no sooner done than every one fell a wameling as the ship did.

1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xlvii I feel the queerest wambling in my innards, as we used to say in Devon, at the sight of so many old faces.

1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 217 Her reckoned you'd veel a wamblin' in the stommick.

1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd iii. iii. 108 The retreating-way, Along which wambling waggons since the noon Have crept in closening file.

1912 J. Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 82 All the thin incapacity of that shadowy figure was pitilessly displayed; the desperate narrowness in that long pale face; the wambling look of those pale, well-kept hands.

ˈwamblingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adverb] > nausea

wamblingly1615

squeamishly1843

queasily1845

sickishly1847

1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 78 If wee should make good their resemblances, how then should we please the stomacke of God? who hath indeede brooked and borne vs a long time, I doubt but wamblingly.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wamble
释义	wamblen. /ˈwɒmb(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1700s– womble. Now only colloquial or dialect Etymology: < wamble v. 1. A rolling or uneasiness in the stomach; a feeling of nausea; spec. see quot. 1899. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea wlatingc725 unlusteOE abominationa1398 flatingnessa1398 indignation1398 wambling1398 wlatness1398 nausea?a1425 walmingc1440 loathsomeness1536 qualming1565 subversion of the stomach1569 queasiness1576 pukishness1581 squeamishnessa1586 distaste1598 nausiness1598 wamble1603 sickness1604 distasting1605 distasture1611 nauseation1628 nauseousness1628 qualmishness1643 nauseating1651 crop-sickness1654 squeasinessa1660 mawkishness1670 qualminess1778 wambliness1900 icky1969 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 701 Our meat going downe into the stomacke merily, and with pleasure, dissolveth incontinently all wambles. 1865 J. Sleigh Attempt at Derbyshire Gloss. (E.D.D.) Wamble, faintness. 1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Wambles, an old popular term for Milk fever. 1902 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Lightning Conductor 48 There's another thing which gives me the ‘wombles’. †2. An act of seething or bubbling up when brought to boiling-point. Obsolete. Cf. walm n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > agitation of liquid in boiling > an act of wamble1620 1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 44 If you also boyle in it a quantity of ginger, three or foure wambles about,..it will be much the better. 1681 Sober Dial. betw. Stafford & the Lords 2/2 [Stafford, as a ghost from Hell loq.] Here is a parcel of cold Comfort, but I fear me not enough to mitigate one wamble of the great Lake. 1730 W. Burdon Gentleman's Pocket-farrier 16 Set it on [the Fire] again, and give it two or three Wambles. 3. An unsteady movement (of a person or thing); a roll of the body; a rolling or staggering gait. on or upon the wamble, staggering, wobbling. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > an unsteady movement wamble1825 1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 370 When Knight's Quarterly Magazine took a pain in its head, and gied a wamle ower the counter in the dead-thraws. 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) ii The jump of the horse gave a jerk to the shaft, and this..gave a lollop to the near wheel, already on the wamble. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 Fancy..her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail-and-wamble. Compounds General attributive. wamble-cropped adj. (now U.S.), affected with nausea, sick (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of person squeamishc1450 qualmish1548 wamble-cropped1552 wamble-stomached1552 qualming1576 queasy1579 queasy-stomached1579 kecklish1601 keckish1603 nauseous1613 nauseative1620 sick1631 sick at (or to, in) the stomach1653 vomiturient1666 sick as a horse1705 qualmyish1831 squeamy1838 qualmy1846 queachy1859 squalmish1867 wambly1872 ill1928 naar1969 sick as a parrot1979 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wamble cropped, stomachichus. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 14 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) And yesterday, hee sayth, I was wamble-cropt, and (sauing your presence) parbrak't. 1798 Massachusetts Spy 5 Sept. 1/1 I feel a good deal womblecropped about dropping her acquaintance. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. i. xxiii It makes me so kinder wamble~cropt, when I think on it, that I'm afeared to venture on matrimony at all. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 44 I got back to the sloop and turned in awfully womble~cropped. † wamble-stomached adj. Obsolete = wamble-cropped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of person squeamishc1450 qualmish1548 wamble-cropped1552 wamble-stomached1552 qualming1576 queasy1579 queasy-stomached1579 kecklish1601 keckish1603 nauseous1613 nauseative1620 sick1631 sick at (or to, in) the stomach1653 vomiturient1666 sick as a horse1705 qualmyish1831 squeamy1838 qualmy1846 queachy1859 squalmish1867 wambly1872 ill1928 naar1969 sick as a parrot1979 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wamble stomaked to be, nauseo. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wamblev. /ˈwɒmb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English wamel, wamle, (Middle English wemel, Middle English wam(m)il, wamylle), 1500s wambel, Middle English, 1800s womble, 1700s waumle, 1800s wam(m)le, wammel, wamell, wemble, wommle, Middle English– wamble. Etymology: Probably two or more verbs have coalesced. In sense 1 the word may correspond to Danish vamle to feel nausea, a frequentative formation on the Germanic root wem.- : wam- ( < Indogermanic wem- : wom- ; compare Latin vomĕre , Greek ϝεμ- , ἐμεῖν to vomit), whence Middle Swedish vami nausea, vomul nauseous, Swedish vämja (reflexive) to feel sick. A distinct root of identical form seems to be represented in senses 2 – 4, with which compare Norwegian vamla , vamra , to stagger, Old High German wimidôn , wamezzen to move, stir, modern German wimmeln swarm. In sense 5 there may be mixture of a metathetic form of walm v.; on the other hand in some uses walm may be a metathesis of wamble. Now dialect. I. Senses relating to feeling nauseous. 1. a. intransitive. To be qualmish, feel nausea. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of person: feel nausea wamble13.. flatec1400 qualm1565 squeam1575 sickena1616 nauseate1625 13.. W. de Bibbesworth in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 84/2 Wamblez, laumber. a1400 Nominale (Skeat) 268 Homme lambeie pur ordure. M. wemelith for fulthe. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 300 For þat mote in his mawe [Jonah in the whale's belly] mad hym, I trowe, Þaȝ hit lyttel were, hym wyth to wamel at his hert. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 515/1 Wamelon', yn the stomake (wamlyn, P.), naus(e)o. 1483 Cath. Angl. 407/2 To Wamylle, iliacare, navsiare. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxii. 91 He yat has a wayke calde stomak..oft tymes gantis and wamblis, bolkis with hevy suollen eyne. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 145 in Poems (1981) 9 His hart wammillis wyse argumentis to heir. 1500 Ortus Vocabulorum (W. de W.) B b v Nauseo..to wamble. b. Of the stomach or its contents: to be felt to roll about (in nausea). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of person: feel nausea > of stomach overcast?a1513 wamblea1529 walter?1544 turn1570 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii A howe my stomake wambleth I am all in a swete. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xii. f. xliii Theyr fore fathers murmured in desert agaynst Moyses for manna, and sayed that theyr stomake wambled agaynst that lyght meate. a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1276/1 Scant was the fruite passed downe both theyr throtes, when it so began to wamble in their stomakes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Allecter, to wamble, as a queasie stomacke doth. a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. B2/2 When..your cold sallets without salt or vineger Be wambling in your stomacks. 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iii. 23 I was never good at swallowing Physick: and my Stomach wambles at the very thought of it. 1746 Love Poem Physician in J. Swift Misc. XI. 266 My Bowels wambling make me spew. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. 148 This word..completely turned his stomach that had already begun to wamble at the sight. 1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1853) II. 266/1 No wonder, Master Ephraim, thy entrails are moved and wamble. c. transferred and figurative. (Cf. sense 5.) ΚΠ 1591 J. Lyly Endimion iv. ii. sig. G^v He is resolued to weep some three or foure payle-fuls, to auoyde the rume of loue that wambleth in his stomacke. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iv. ii [My soul] can digest a Monster, without cruditie, A Sin as weightie as an Elephant, And neuer wamble for 't. 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 65 I have such a Plot..shall I speak, dear Warner? let me now; it does so wamble within me, just like a Clyster. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. i. 144 Vast Fires Subterranean..work and wamble in the Bowels of the Earth. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxiii. 350 I still saw the unleavened pride of womankind wambling within her. 1898 J. M. Cobban Angel of Covenant xv. 168 The pains o' love 'll work and wommle in the inside of ye like a knot o' adders! II. Senses relating to twisting or unsteady movement. 2. To turn and twist the body about, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over. Also with about, over, through. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > roll or tumble about > of persons or animals wallowc900 welter?a1400 rollc1405 wamblec1420 rumble?1516 tolter1529 shake1538 worblea1599 flounder1735 tousle1852 c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3213 When þat litull chylde was leyde a-doune byfore þe tombe..He womblede & tomblede on bak & wombe. 1755 R. Forbes tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 20 I len'd him sik a dird, As laid him arselins on his back, To wamble o' the yerd. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 63 At Diston's feet he lichtet fair, Wayme uppermost, and wamblit there. 1854 J. Wilson Let. in Mem. (1859) viii. 305 The cod-fish..laid their heads over each other's shoulders, and wambled about like a set of puppy dogs. 1861 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 756 I made an experiment on the log and found I could not get my chin six inches above the water level without wembling over. 1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xliii He have left off talking now for two days only to moan and to wamble. 3. a. To roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 1611 J. Davies Scourge of Folly 148 Neede makes the olde wife trot. Nay she but wambles. 1677 A. Marvell Let. 6 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 289 I can not but wonder that.. you should so soon begin to wamble which is enough to discourage or turne giddy one of so weak a braine and experience. Surely, Brother, it is the best to steere steddy. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxii. 240 The abominable and irreverent creature was so drunk, that he wamblet to and fro over the drum, as if there had not been a bane in his body. 1862 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 362 A long row of unfortunates are drawn up on each side of the quarter-deck, wombling and shambling and sniggering. 1893 W. S. Pasmore Stories Devon & Cornwall (1900) 36 As us was gwain down awver Bodmin 'ill I zimmed tha 'oss begin to wommle 'bout a bet. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) He wammelt up the stairs wi' the seck o' floor on iv his back, onyhoo. b. Of things: to totter, waver; to move unsteadily, stagger, reel. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] hobblec1330 wave1406 stamperc1450 fleet15.. titubate1540 wamble1589 tilt1594 vacillate1598 waggle1611 wimple1819 wangle1820 waver1841 lurch1851 woggle1871 teeter1904 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1614 To wamble, or wag to and fro, as a crooked arrow wil doe, being shot out of a bowe, vacillo, sinuo. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 20 Like to a tower wambling on the sea. 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 161 How the warl',..Hing's waumlan at a tether I' the air. 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 82 To Wammel, To Wamble, to move to and fro in an irregular and awkward manner; to move out of a regular course or motion. Applied chiefly to mechanical operations. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man i. 7 His feet wambling one over the other like those of a mummer's bear. 4. transitive. To twist or turn (something) over and over; to turn (a thing) round or upside down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > turn over and over or roll trendc1315 trendle1382 welter?a1400 rollc1400 overweltera1450 wamble1561 trindle1595 obvolve1649 pitch-pole1926 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 13 Let him hold it awaye a litle in the mouth, and wambel it round about in the mouth. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 23 Take..a farthing worth of flower to white him ouer and wamble him in. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wamble, to roll the meat in the mouth, when too large to swallow. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Wemble, to turn a cup upside down in token of having had enough tea. North. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) He wammelt his shillin. III. Senses relating to seething. †5. intransitive. Of water, the blood: to seethe, boil. = walm v. 2, wall v.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > boil [verb (intransitive)] wallc1000 well?a1200 boila1225 seethea1400 ebulliate1599 qualm1599 walm1610 ebullate1623 wamble1636 wobble1725 1636 W. Davenant Witts ii. i. sig. D^v Now does my blood wamble! you! Sucket eater! 1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. To Wamble [as a pot] bullio. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Wamble, to rise up as seething Water does. †6. To swarm (with vermin): = wall v.¹ 2b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with wallc1000 to swarm in1482 wamble1485 scrawl1530 to swarm with1548 exceed1624 pullulate1641 sny1674 teem1710 spawn1818 1485 Trevisa's Higden (Caxton) (Rolls) V. 235 He wambled [earlier texts wallede, wellede] ful of wormes [L. uermibus scatens]. Derivatives ˈwambling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea wlatingc725 unlusteOE abominationa1398 flatingnessa1398 indignation1398 wambling1398 wlatness1398 nausea?a1425 walmingc1440 loathsomeness1536 qualming1565 subversion of the stomach1569 queasiness1576 pukishness1581 squeamishnessa1586 distaste1598 nausiness1598 wamble1603 sickness1604 distasting1605 distasture1611 nauseation1628 nauseousness1628 qualmishness1643 nauseating1651 crop-sickness1654 squeasinessa1660 mawkishness1670 qualminess1778 wambliness1900 icky1969 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > of stomach squeamous1398 queasy1545 wambling1566 qualming1576 squeasy1596 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling wallingOE waveringc1425 surging1566 trilling1567 wambling1581 grown1600 surgeful1612 sourcinga1660 washing1697 flashing1744 under-rolling1745 jawing1802 rolly1885 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] yawinga1614 vacillation1633 titubation1643 wambling1680 teetering1845 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > agitation of liquid in boiling walmOE welling1371 boilingc1380 fervence14.. fervoura1440 play1440 effervescence1651 exaestuation1666 effervescency1681 estuation1684 wambling1686 popple1826 soubresaut1849 tottling1864 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [adjective] waveringc1540 tilting1606 titubating1653 volatile1654 tittering1661 drunken1786 wavery1820 vacillating1822 joggly1828 yawing1835 teetering1845 wambly1857 pecky1864 drunk1881 teetery1900 wambling1908 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xx. 207 To moche meete encreasyth humours and postumes and makith wamlynges and spuynges. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxiii. 95 Gif jt hapnis the ony hert wamblyng—egirly tak a vomyt of water and vynager. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii Ofte tymes suche a wamblynge goth ouer my harte yet I am not harte seke. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 34 Noisome and lothsomenesse of stomacke, wambleyng of the harte, pulse not equall. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Av^v Confections sweete or tarte Theylle minge for the, such as beste lykes Thy quasye wamblynge hearte. 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hercules Oetæus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 193 For my sake Acheloe Did let his streaming bloud amid his wambling waues to floe. 1649 J. Taylor Wandering 18 If any one be queasie, or doe feele a wambling in the Gizzard. 1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate v. ii Yes faith have I [been in love], and have felt your Flames and Fires, and Inclinations, and Wamblings. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. ix. 283 Warmth..cast into a boyling Pot,..allayes the wambling of the Liquor. 1745 D. E. Baker tr. ‘A. F. de Avellaneda’ Don Quixote I. i. iv. 24 I perceive by the many and powerful wamblings of my Brain, that I shall soon fall a-sleep. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xviii. 79 I am amazed at the repetition of thy wambling nonsense. 1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 128 We were obliged to cast anchor; which was no sooner done than every one fell a wameling as the ship did. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xlvii I feel the queerest wambling in my innards, as we used to say in Devon, at the sight of so many old faces. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 217 Her reckoned you'd veel a wamblin' in the stommick. 1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd iii. iii. 108 The retreating-way, Along which wambling waggons since the noon Have crept in closening file. 1912 J. Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 82 All the thin incapacity of that shadowy figure was pitilessly displayed; the desperate narrowness in that long pale face; the wambling look of those pale, well-kept hands. ˈwamblingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adverb] > nausea wamblingly1615 squeamishly1843 queasily1845 sickishly1847 1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 78 If wee should make good their resemblances, how then should we please the stomacke of God? who hath indeede brooked and borne vs a long time, I doubt but wamblingly. 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