wamble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Nausea; seething; bubbling. obsolete
  2. An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling. dialectal
    — 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. A rumble of the stomach. dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach). dialectal
  2. To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over. dialectal
  3. To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait. dialectal
    — 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.

词形变化

wambles plural wambles present,singular,third-person wambling participle,present wambled participle,past wambled past

词汇关系

衍生词
wamble-cropped

词源

词源 1
From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
词源 2
From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse vāma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).
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