wambly

And they include the Lancashire contributions - wambly, meaning faint or sick, fratching, meaning to quarrel, and dree, which is another word for monotonous.

unknown title 2009

I dinna think he'd fainted, he was just too wambly to stand for the moment.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

No complaints whatsoever, apart from the weak and wambly feeling after having soaked in hot water. hot steam, hot dry air for ages on end, with good conversation and company in between and following.

A very good thing, this spa malarky jasonelvis 2007

Once the food had been consumed very necessary - we'd got all weak and wambly from sitting round in hot water and hot steam rooms there was rather a lot of window-shopping and actual shopping.

A lovely weekend in Bristol and Oxford badasstronaut 2007

"Her eyes do make me wimbly-wambly in the stomach," declared the second laborer; "when you've done talkin ', Gaffer Polglaze, us'll go up-long, an' the sooner the better."

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

"'Twas middlin 'wambly," assented Calvin Oke, the second fiddle -- a screw-faced man tightly wound about the throat with a yellow kerchief.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Not for a hundred pound would I go down that cliff again in cold blood, and my stomach turns wambly in bed o 'nights when I dream of it.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

I bloodied the nose of one, I mind, when I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

I bloodied the nose of one, I mind, when I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I bloodied the nose of one, I mind, when I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872