释义 |
wimbly-wambly, a. dial.|ˈwɪmblɪˈwɒmblɪ| Also wimley-wamley. [Redupl. f. wambly a.] Shaky, unsteady; feeble, effeminate.
1881Leeds Loiners' Comic Olmenac 24, I went all wimley-wamley e me head. 1882F. W. P. Jago Ancient Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 312 I'm all wimbly-wambly. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 113 Flat-chested, crop-headed, chemicalised women, of indeterminate sex, And wimbly-wambly young men, of sex still more indeterminate. |