Wamble vs Wabble - What's the difference?
wamble | wabble |
(obsolete) Nausea; seething; bubbling; rolling boil.
(dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
* 1887 ,
A stomach rumble.
(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 ,
wobble, move to and fro
*{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Milo Hastings, title=In the Clutch of the War-God, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Their planes wabble , the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the air pressure." }}
*{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort. }}
As verbs the difference between wamble and wabble
is that wamble is to feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach) while wabble is wobble, move to and fro.As a noun wamble
is nausea; seething; bubbling; rolling boil.wamble
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Noun
(en noun)- 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 !
Verb
- She may shail, but she'll never wamble .
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