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wamble - Word of the Day - Wed Jul 10, 2024


Myr

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wamble - (verb) - to feel nausea or to move unsteadily; also refers to the churning of the stomach

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After the turbulent voyage, he wambled into the airport, still feeling the plane’s rocking in his legs.

 

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After changing the cat box. I wambled outside to breathe for a while. It was necessary.

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Don't forget, Weebles wamble but they don't fall down.  Wait, I got that wrong.  Weebles wobble, not wamble.  Silly me!  

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Bill W

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The etymology of wamble is shady.  It either comes from Latin or Old Norse worse that mean to womit or a Norwegian word that means to stagger.  And according to @Myr and @drpaladinladin, the English variation can mean either or both.  

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sandrewn

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Between Myr , drpaladin and now, Bill W the Word of the Day 'Wamble' was pretty much covered. Mix in a dash/pinch of JamesSavik and now, Bill W humor, what more could one ask for, a done deal?

I did spend a bit of time (read a lot) searching(verb & noun), with some hair pulling in frustration and came up with  I presume exactly what they did.

Of course, once again, just to add my two cents worth, I came upon some example sentences, from: Project Gutenberg

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After the same manner may you make two or three egges by a little practice to wamble one after another.

When she'd read her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb.

Didn't the poor leetle chap look wamble-cropped when he see that.

I felt just as good as any one, but I was a little wamble-cropped when I thought that I shouldn't know how to behave.

Here's a fine blade, now, and a musket—give me a harquebus; I could shoot once, but my arm is all of a wamble now.

 

If you click on any (except not this one)Project Gutenberg, it will take you to a page where you can scroll down to each of the above sentences.

Here is the first one:

How to make two or three egges dance upon a staffe.

PRovide a good thick staffe about two yards long, three parts wherof ought to be made scoope-wise, or halfe hollow, like a basting ladle, the fourth part must serue for the handle. At the end of the scoope must be made a hole, and therein put a broad pin about the length of an egge, and it is done. Rest the handle of this staffe against your right thigh, and hold it with your right hand neere to the beginning of the scoope; lay an egge then into the scoope of the staffe, and turne your selfe round, bearing the staffe now up, and anon downe, with the scoope side of it alwayes upward, so the eg will tumble from one end of the scoop unto the other, and not fall out. After the same manner may you make two or three egges by a little practice to wamble one after another.

 

 

:cowboy:( the example sentences are from 1635, spelling excuse? )

Last, I promise, last note🤞. As you may have guessed, these sentences are from a book for magicians, which I think was once owned by Houdini.

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