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Wamble vs Famble - What's the difference?

wamble | famble |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between wamble and famble

is that wamble is (obsolete) nausea; seething; bubbling; rolling boil while famble is (obsolete) to stammer.

As nouns the difference between wamble and famble

is that wamble is (obsolete) nausea; seething; bubbling; rolling boil while famble is (obsolete|slang) a hand.

As verbs the difference between wamble and famble

is that wamble is (dialect) to feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach) while famble is (obsolete) to stammer.

wamble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Nausea; seething; bubbling; rolling boil.
  • (dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
  • * 1887 ,
    • Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble !
  • A stomach rumble.

    • Verb

  • (dialect) To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach) .
  • (dialect) To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
  • (dialect) To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.
  • * 1887 ,
    • She may shail, but she'll never wamble .

    famble

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, slang) A hand.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • We clap our fambles .
  • * Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman
    • A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles . He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) falmelen

    Verb

    (fambl)
  • (obsolete) To stammer.
    • (Nares)
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