whemmel
English
Etymology
A frequentative form of whelm equivalent to whelm + -le, or formed from that word by metathesis.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: whem‧mel
Verb
whemmel (third-person singular simple present whemmels, present participle whemmeling or whemmeling, simple past and past participle whemmeled or whemmeled)
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To engulf, to submerge.
- Synonym: whelm
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- Synonym: whelm
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To turn (something) upside down, to invert; to capsize, to overturn; (specifically) to drink a glass (of an alcoholic beverage completely.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive, figuratively) To confound, to disrupt.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, intransitive) To capsize; to walk clumsily; to fall over.
Noun
whemmel (plural whemmels)
Alternative forms
References
- ^ “whemmel, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1923.