Noun: wamble
| Singular | wamble |
| Plural | wambles |
Sample Sentences
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Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble! [1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “Chapter 11”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like wamble
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (“to vomit”), Norwegian vamla (“to stagger”), and Old Norse váma (“vomit”)) + -le (frequentative suffix). See: Latin Nouns '
vomere', Old Norse Nouns '
váma'.