wamble-cropped

English

Alternative forms

• womblety-cropped

Etymology

Mid-16th century. From wamble (“nausea”) +‎ cropped (“stomached”).

Adjective

wamble-cropped (comparative more wamble-cropped, superlative most wamble-cropped)

1. Sick from excessive eating or drinking.
2. (slang) Crestfallen; dejected.

Synonyms

• (sick): crapulous; See also Thesaurus:nauseated
• (crestfallen): See also Thesaurus:sad

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wamble-cropped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)