Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milk-sickness.
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- noun Plural form of
wamble . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wamble .
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Examples
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And thus the American Presidential contest wambles and witters on, and the elephant in the room trumpets.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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All the rest of the year we are the plodding percheron of commerce, patiently tugging our wain; but on that morning there wambles back, for the nonce, the pang of Eden.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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BUTT (drawling forth from his blousom whereis meditabound of his minkerstary, switches on his gorsecopper’s fling weitoheito lang-thorn, fed up the grain oils of Aerin, while his laugh neighs banck as that flashermind’s rays and his lipponease longuewedge wambles).
Finnegans Wake 2006
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“No Bopping that hairy-brain when he wambles off on an idealism binge.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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"Don't 'ee listen to such fash, lass, for what's he likely to know outside of Lady Jones's wimble-wambles and me Lor'
Desert Love Joan Conquest
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