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wamble¹

  • /ˈwɑm.bəl/

Where it comes from

From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (“to vomit”), Norwegian vamla (“to stagger”), and Old Norse váma (“vomit”)) + -le (frequentative suffix).

noun wambles

  1. obsolete Nausea; seething; bubbling.
  2. dialectal An 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!
  3. dialectal A rumble of the stomach.

verb wambles · wambling · wambled

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

Wamble²

Where it comes from

Variant of Womble.

proper noun Wambles

  1. A surname.

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"wamble." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/wamble.

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@misc{wamble_2026,
  title = {wamble},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wamble},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}