Meaning & use

wamble

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to feel nausea or an unsettled stomach, or to move unsteadily from side to side.

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Her stomach began to wamble after the third loop on the roller coaster.

The old cart would wamble down the rutted road, threatening to tip over.

A note on using this word

Wamble is a chiefly dialectal English word with roots going back to Middle English, still occasionally used to describe queasiness or unsteady motion.

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