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▪ I. wamble, n.|ˈwɒmb(ə)l|
Also 8– womble. Now only colloq. or dial.
[f. wamble v.]
1. A rolling or uneasiness in the stomach; a feeling of nausea; spec. see quot. 1899.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. iv. 701 Our meat going downe into the stomacke merily, and with pleasure, dissolveth incontinently all wambles. 1865J. Sleigh Derbysh. Gloss. (E.D.D.), Wamble, faintness. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Wambles, an old popular term for Milk fever. 1902C. N. & 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. Obs. Cf. walm n.
1620Venner 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. 1681Sober 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. 1730W. Burdon Gentl. 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.
1825J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 7 When Knight's Quarterly Magazine took a pain in its head, and gied a wamle ower the counter in the dead-thraws. 1881Blackmore Christowell 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[see snail n.2].
4. Comb.: wamble-cropped (now U.S.), † -stomached adjs., affected with nausea, sick (lit. and fig.).
1552Huloet, *Wamble cropped, stomachichus. a1610Healey Theophrastus (1616) 14 And yesterday, hee sayth, I was wamble-cropt, and (sauing your presence) parbrak't. 1798Massachusetts Spy 5 Sept. 1/1, I feel a good deal womblecropped about dropping her acquaintance. 1836Haliburton Clockm. 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‘Jon. Slick’ High Life N. York I. 44, I got back to the sloop and turned in awfully womble⁓cropped.
1552Huloet, *Wamble stomaked to be, nauseo.
▪ II. wamble, v. Now dial.|ˈwɒmb(ə)l|
Forms: 4–5 wamel, wamle, (4 wemel, 5 wam(m)il, wamylle), 6 wambel, 5, 9 womble, 8 waumle, 9 wam(m)le, wammel, wamell, wemble, wommle, 4– wamble.
[Prob. two or more verbs have coalesced. In sense 1 the word may correspond to Da. vamle to feel nausea, a frequentative formation on the Teut. root *wem.-: *wam- (:—Indogermanic *wem-: *wom-; cf. L. vomĕre, Gr. ϝεµ-, ἐµεῖν to vomit), whence MSw. vami nausea, vomul nauseous, Sw. vämja refl. to feel sick. A distinct root of identical form seems to be represented in senses 2–4, with which cf. Norw. vamla, vamra, to stagger, OHG. wimidôn, wamezzen to move, stir, mod.G. 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.]
I.
1. intr. To be qualmish, feel nausea.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 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. 13..W. de Bibbesworth in Rel. Ant. II. 84/2 Wamblez, laumber. a1400Nominale (Skeat) 268 Homme lambeie pur ordure. M. wemelith for fulthe. c1440Promp. Parv. 515/1 Wamelon', yn the stomake (wamlyn, P.), naus(e)o. 1456Sir G. Hay Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 119 He that has a wayke calde stomak..oft tymis gantis and wambleis, bolkis, with hevy suollyn eyne. c1480Henryson Cock & Jasp xii, His hart wammillis wyse argument to heir. 1483Cath. Angl. 407/2 To Wamylle, iliacare, navsiare. 1500Ortus Vocab. (W. de W.) B b v, Nauseo..to wamble.
b. Of the stomach or its contents: To be felt to roll about (in nausea).
c1518Skelton Magnyf. 1617 A, howe my stomake wambleth! I am all in a swete. 1533More Answ. Poisoned Bk. i. xii. 43 Theyr fore fathers murmured in desert agaynst Moyses for manna, and sayed that theyr stomake wambled agaynst that lyght meate. 1534― Treat. Passion Wks. (1557) 1274/1 Scant was the fruite passed downe both theyr throtes, when it so began to wamble in their stomakes. 1611Cotgr., Allecter, to wamble, as a queasie stomacke doth. c1618Fletcher Mad Lover i. i, When..your cold sallets without salt or vineger Be wambling in your stomachs. 1690Dryden Amphitryon iii. i, I was never good at swallowing Physick: and my Stomach wambles at the very thought of it. 1738Swift Love Poem fr. Phys. 12 My Bowels wambling make me spew. 1781C. Johnston Hist. J. Juniper I. 148 This word..completely turned his stomach that had already begun to wamble at the sight. 1834Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1853 II. 266/1 No wonder, Master Ephraim, thy entrails are moved and wamble.
c. transf. and fig. (Cf. 5.)
1591Lyly Endym. iv. ii, He is resolued to weep some three or foure payle-fuls, to auoyde the rume of loue that wambleth in his stomacke. 1624Middleton Game at Chess iv. ii, [My soul] can digest a Monster, without cruditie, A Sin as weightie as an Elephant, And neuer wamble for 't. 1667Dryden, etc. Sir M. Mar-all v. ii, I have such a Plot;..Shall I speak, dear Warner? let me now; it does so wamble within me, just like a Clyster. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. i. 144 Vast Fires Subterranean..work and wamble in the Bowels of the Earth. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xxiii. [xxvi.] 350, I still saw the unleavened pride of womankind wambling within her. 1898J. M. Cobban Angel of Covt. xv. 168 The pains o' love 'll work and wommle in the inside of ye like a knot o' adders!
II.
2. To turn and twist the body about, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over. Also with about, over, through. Also fig.
c1420Chron. Vilod. 3213 When þat litull chylde was leyde a-doune byfore þe tombe..He womblede & tomblede on bak & wombe. 1755R. Forbes Ajax 20, I len'd him sik a dird, As laid him arselins on his back, To wamble o' the yerd. 1819[see wame n. 1]. 1854J. Wilson Let. in Mem. viii. (1859) 305 The cod-fish..laid their heads over each other's shoulders, and wambled about like a set of puppy dogs. 1861Fraser'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. 1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell xliii, He have left off talking now for two days only to moan and to wamble.
3. To roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait. Also fig.
1611J. Davies (Heref.) Sco. Folly (Grosart) 43/1 ‘Neede makes the olde wife trot:’ Nay she but wambles. 1676–7Marvell Corr. Wks. 1875 II. 500, 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. 1822Galt Provost xxxii, 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. 1862G. H. Kingsley Sp. & Trav. (1900) 362 A long row of unfortunates are drawn up on each side of the quarter-deck, wombling and shambling and sniggering. 1893W. S. Pasmore Stories Devon & Cornw. (1900) 36 As us was gwain down awver Bodmin 'ill I zimmed tha 'oss begin to wommle 'bout a bet. 1894Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., 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.
1589Rider Bibl. Scholast. i. 1614 To wamble, or wag to and fro, as a crooked arrow wil doe, being shot out of a bowe, vacillo, sinuo. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 20 Like to a tower wambling on the sea. 1788Picken Poems 161 How the warl',..Hing's waumlan at a tether I' the air. 1825J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng., 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. 1896Crockett Grey Man i. 7 His feet wambling one over the other like those of a mummer's bear.
4. trans. To twist or turn (something) over and over; to turn (a thing) round or upside down.
1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 13 Let him hold it awaye a litle in the mouth, and wambel it round about in the mouth. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 23 Take..a farthing worth of flower to white him ouer and wamble him in. 1828[W. Carr] Craven Gloss., Wamble, to roll the meat in the mouth, when too large to swallow. 1847Halliwell, Wemble, to turn a cup upside down in token of having had enough tea. North. 1894Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., He wammelt his shillin.
III. †5. intr. Of water, the blood: To seethe, boil. = walm v. 2, wall v.1 2.
1636Davenant Wits ii. i, Now does my blood wamble. You, Sucket-eater! (Offers to follow her.) 1677Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat., To Wamble [as a pot] bullio. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Wamble, to rise up as seething Water does.
†6. To swarm (with vermin): = wall v.1 2 b. Obs. rare.
1485Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) V. 235 (Caxton) He wambled [earlier texts wallede, wellede] ful of wormes [L. uermibus scatens].
Hence ˈwambling vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈwamblingly adv.
1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. vi. xx. (1495) 207 To moche meete encreasyth humours and postumes and makith wamlynges and spuynges. 1456Sir G. Hay Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 124 Gif it hapnis the ony hert wamblyng, egirly tak a vomyt of water and vinager. c1518Skelton Magnyf. 1620 Ofte tymes suche a wamblynge goth ouer my harte; Yet I am not harte seke. 1564–78W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 45 Noisome and lothesomenesse of stomacke, wambelyng of the harte, pulse not equall. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. i. A v b, Confections sweete or tarte Theylle minge for the, such as beste lykes thy quasye wamblynge hearte. 1581J. Studley Seneca's Herc. Œtæus ii. 193 For my sake Acheloe Did let his streaming bloud amid his wambling waues to floe. 1615S. 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. 1649J. Taylor (Water P.) Wand. Wonders West 18 If any one be queasie, or doe feele a wambling in the Gizzard. 1680Betterton Revenge v. ii, Yes faith have I [been in love], and have felt your Flames and Fires, and Inclinations, and Wamblings. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. ix. 283 Warmth..cast into a boyling Pot,..allayes the wambling of the Liquor. 1745Baker Don Quix. I. i. iv. 24, I perceive by the many and powerful wamblings of my Brain, that I shall soon fall a-sleep. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) IV. 124, I am amazed at the repetition of thy wambling nonsense. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 128 We were obliged to cast anchor; which was no sooner done than every one fell a wameling as the ship did. 1859H. Kingsley 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.’ (Quiller Couch) Delect. Duchy 217 Her reckoned you'd veel a wamblin' in the stommick. 1908Hardy Dynasts iii. iii. iii, The retreating-way, Along which wambling waggons since the noon Have crept in closening file. |