wambled

Otherwise our first recollection would doubtless be of the grimly flushed large face of a resolute parent, bending hotly downward in effort to make both ends meet while we wambled and waggled in innocent, maddening sport.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

He wambled up to her at last and asked for a letter she had filed for him.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

When he came to us his limbs seemed almost to have lost their joints, they wambled so.

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

We walked on like that all night; and in the blue o 'the morning, when twas hardly day, I looked ahead o me, and I zeed that he wambled, and could hardly drag along.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

We walked on like that all night; and in the blue o 'the morning, when 'twas hardly day, I looked ahead o' me, and I zeed that he wambled, and could hardly drag along.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

_] And here now his Stomach wambled more terribly than before; so that if his Friend were by, he must of necessity hold the Bason.

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688