different between wamble vs famble

English

Etymology

From an unknown root (possibly related to Latin vomere (to vomit), Norwegian vamla (to stagger), and Old Norse v?ma (vomit)) + -le (frequentative suffix).

Noun

wamble (plural wambles)

1. (obsolete) Nausea; seething; bubbling.
2. (Britain, dialect) An unsteady walk; a staggering or wobbling.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 11

     Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!

3. (Britain, dialect) A rumble of the stomach.

Verb

wamble (third-person singular simple present wambles, present participle wambling, simple past and past participle wambled)

1. (Britain, dialect) To feel nauseous, to churn (of stomach).
2. (Britain, dialect) To twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over.
3. (Britain, dialect) To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 11

     She may shail, but she'll never wamble.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæmb?l/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l

Etymology 1

Possibly related to fumble.

Noun

famble (plural fambles)

1. (obsolete, slang) A hand.

   • We clap our fambles.

   • 1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

     A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."

Etymology 2

From Old English falmelen.

Verb

famble (third-person singular simple present fambles, present participle fambling, simple past and past participle fambled)

1. (obsolete) To stammer.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

Anagrams

• flambe, flambé

Krio

Noun

famble

1. Alternative form of fambul