wamflev.
Scottish.
intransitive. To go about with flapping garments. Of garments, etc., to flap, flutter (in the wind).
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To wamfle, to move like a tatterdemallion; conveying the idea of one moving about, so as to make his rags flap. Fife.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) It is also said of a vessel at sea; ‘Her sails were wamflin i' the wind’. Fife.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin ix. 87 Had she gotten a glisk o' my solitary swallow-tail, wamflin' in the wind.
1890 J. Service Thir Notandums iv. 20 The labies o' his sark were wamflin' in the win'.
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