wamble-cropped

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wamble-cropped

  • /ˈwɒmb(ə)lˌkɹɒpt/ UK
  • /ˈwɑmb(ə)lˌkɹɑpt/ US

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From wamble (“uneasiness in the stomach; nausea”) + crop (“(Britain, dialectal, especially Scotland) stomach”) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives).

adjective more wamble-cropped · most wamble-cropped · wamble-cropt · womblety-cropped

  1. Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach. [A prattler or babbler] inquireth further, hovv many columnes are in the Odeus: and yeſterday he ſayth, I vvas vvamble-cropt, and (ſauing your preſence) parbrak't: And vvhat day of the moneth is this? But if any man lend him attention, he ſhall neuer be cleare of him.

    Similar: crapulous, barfy, mawkish, nauseated, nauseatic, pukey, pukish, queasy, sick, sick to one's stomach, vomity

  2. figuratively Feeling uneasy; anxious, worried. They went off grumbling, and consarnedly wamble-cropped, for a reward had been offered for the purty French gal's brother, and the etarnal scamp meant to git his revenge on her and money to boot.

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@misc{wamble_cropped_2026,
  title = {wamble-cropped},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wamble-cropped},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}