wankle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
wankle (comparative more wankle, superlative most wankle)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Weak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wankel, wankill, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.
Adjective[edit]
wankle (comparative mair wankle, superlative maist wankle)
- weak
- unsteady
- G. Stuart
- Your wankle leggs canno support ye / Sae sit ye down, till I exhort ye.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- G. Stuart
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