wambly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wambly (comparative more wambly, superlative most wambly)
- (dialect) Shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.
- 1911, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, volume 88, page 482:
- " […] Come ben the house to a bit whisky. Ye're fair wambly wi' the fright o't.”
I went shaking into the house with him, […] .
- 1928, S. S. Van Dine, “The Greene Murder Case”, in The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries, published 2013, page 563:
- She needs explaining, Markham—and a dashed lot of it.—And Rex, with his projecting parietals and his wambly body and his periodic fits.
- 1989, Down East, The Magazine of Maine, Volume 35, Issues 6-11, page 8,
- The food is as good as people deserve who are willing to eat in such restaurants. Their menus are designed not to offend even the most wambly of tourists.
Synonyms
[edit]- (shaky, dizzy or nauseous): wimbly-wambly