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wamble-cropped en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɑmb(ə)lˌkɹɑpt/ (General-American)
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• /ˈwɒmb(ə)lˌkɹɒpt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From wamble (“uneasiness in the stomach; nausea”) + crop (“(Britain, dialectal, especially Scotland) stomach”) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives).

Meanings

1. Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach.
   • When she'd read her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb. 1843, Jonathan Slick [pseudonym; Ann Sophia Stephens], “Letter XI. Visit to the Park Theatre.—First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as Written on the Air, in the Ærial Fetes of Mademoiselle Celeste.—First Shock at the Exhibition of a Ballet Costumè, Accompanied by the ‘Twinkles’ of Celeste’s Feet—with Her Pigeon Wings, Double-shuffles, Gallopades and Pirouettes.”, in High Life in New York, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Edward Stephens, Brother Jonathan Office, […], →OCLC, page 47, column 1:
   • Mornings, they craunch clove / stems to freshen raffish breath. The buck- / fever, wamble-cropped air swells with / the spiced aroma, humming like a / pawky gadabout through cough-filled halls. 2022, Michael Fraser, “Goshen”, in The Day-breakers, Windsor, Ont.: Biblioasis, →ISBN, page 24:
   • He was wamble-cropped in the bowels, complaining of stomach pains and cramps, followed by bouts of uncontrollable diarrhea. 2007, Michael [C.] White, chapter 2, in Soul Catcher, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 21:
   • [A prattler or babbler] inquireth further, hovv many columnes are in the Odeus: and yeſterday he ſayth, I vvas vvamble-cropt, and (ſauing your preſence) parbrak't: And vvhat day of the moneth is this? But if any man lend him attention, he ſhall neuer be cleare of him. a. 1611 (date written), Theophrastus, “Theophrasti Characteres Ethicæ: Theophrastus His Morall Characters: Or Description of Maners. 3. Of Garrulitie.”, in Jo[hn] Healey, transl., Epictetus Manuall. Cebes Table. Theophrastus Characters, London: […] R. B[adger?] and are to be sold by Iohn Stafford, published 1636, →OCLC, page 14:
   • I rode over early to ask if you'd put up for the Wilton hunt, and found your furniture here unpackin' and Dennis lookin' on, like a wamble-cropped sentryman. 1898, Bernard Capes, chapter XIX, in The Lake of Wine (Appletons’ Town and Country Library; no. 239), D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 128:
2. (figuratively) Feeling uneasy; anxious, worried.
   • [W]hen he asked me if I was scared of the Bunkers, it nettled me; […] I felt just as good as any one, but I was a little wamble-cropped when I thought that I shouldn't know how to behave. 1922, [John] Herbert Quick, “I Save a Treasure, and Start a Feud”, in Vandemark’s Folly, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 267:
   • They went off grumbling, and consarnedly wamble-cropped, for a reward had been offered for the purty French gal's brother, and the etarnal scamp meant to git his revenge on her and money to boot. 1843, Jonathan Slick [pseudonym; Ann Sophia Stephens], “Letter XI. Visit to the Park Theatre.—First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as Written on the Air, in the Ærial Fetes of Mademoiselle Celeste.—First Shock at the Exhibition of a Ballet Costumè, Accompanied by the ‘Twinkles’ of Celeste’s Feet—with Her Pigeon Wings, Double-shuffles, Gallopades and Pirouettes.”, in High Life in New York, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Edward Stephens, Brother Jonathan Office, […], →OCLC, page 47, column 2:

Forms

Relateds

wamble · wambly

Synonyms

nauseatic · nauseated · mawkish · barfy · pukish · sick to one's stomach · queasy · pukey · crapulous · vomity · sick

Translations (1)

fi vatsa sekaisin (feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach)