Dictionary

wambly en · ADJ

Etymology

From wamble + -y.

Meanings

1. (dialectal) Shaky, unsteady, dizzy, queasy, nauseous.
   • 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.
   • She needs explaining, Markham—and a dashed lot of it.—And Rex, with his projecting parietals and his wambly body and his periodic fits. 1928, S. S. Van Dine, “The Greene Murder Case”, in The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries, published 2013, page 563:
   • "[…]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,[…]. 1911, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, volume 88, page 482:

Forms

Deriveds

wambliness

Relateds

wamble

Synonyms

wimbly-wambly (shaky, dizzy or nauseous)