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wambly, a. dial.|ˈwɒmblɪ| Also wambley, wombly. [f. wamble n. or v. + -y1.] 1. Affected with nausea.
1872Hartley's Yorksh. Ditties Ser. i. 104 He wor takken varry wamley for want ov a bit ov a bitin on. 1892Mrs. S. Batson Dark I. iv. 75 If they went without their meal they would be ‘wombly’ all the morning. 2. Causing nausea.
1899‘Zack’ On Trail xxiii. 220 He lies that heavy on the gorge o' me I'd a deal liefer spue the wambly gawkin out and be done wi' un. 3. Shaky, tottering, unsteady.
1857E. Waugh Lanc. Life 106 Eh! he used to be as limber as a treawt when he're young; but neaw he's as wambley an' slamp as a barrow full o' warp sizin'. 1893Stevenson Catriona xi, I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him. Hence ˈwambliness.
1900E. Phillpotts Sons of Morning i. ix. 90 It do bring him a wambliness of the innards to do or say ought as may draw the public eye upon un. |