different between wambulance vs ambulance

English

Alternative forms

• waaambulance
• waambulance
• wahmbulance
• whambulance

Etymology

Blend of wah +? ambulance. The earliest known usage was in the 2000 Disney film The Kid, and it may have been first used in this film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wæm.bj?.l?ns/
• Hyphenation: wam?bu?lance

Noun

wambulance (plural wambulances)

1. (slang) A notional ambulance called to the scene when somebody is upset; used in dismissive responses to oversensitive complaining.
   • 2000, Disney's The Kid

     Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis): Waaaaaah. Waaaaaaah. Somebody call the wambulance.

   • 2001, "jim", Outrageous!!! (on newsgroup rec.aviation.piloting)

     Someone call the Wambulance. Dudley I am so sick of hearing you bitch about how everybody is not suffering enough.

   • 2007, "Rodney Parker", What a game! (on newsgroup alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys)

     Funny how we didn't see a single post in this NG from "Ron" or Holder during the game. Not surprising, but funny anyway. I'm sure they'll surface sometime. As a precaution, I've already called the wambulance for them.

See also

• world's smallest violin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance, from (hôpital) ambulant (“walking, shifting (hospital)”), from Latin ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm.bj?.l?ns/
• (AAVE, also) IPA^(key): /?æm.bj??læns/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lance

Noun

ambulance (plural ambulances)

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]
2. (military) A mobile field hospital. [1798]
3. (obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• ambulatory
• ambulant

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????????? (embulens)

Translations

Verb

ambulance (third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced)

1. (transitive) To transport by ambulance.

Further reading

• ambulance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambulance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ambulant?s?]

Noun

ambulance f

1. ambulance
2. hospital ward or department that offers outpatient care

Declension

Synonyms

• (ambulance): sanitka

Related terms

• ambulantní
• ambulantn?

Further reading

• ambulance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ambulance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambulance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.by?l?n.s?/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?lan?ce
• Rhymes: -?ns?

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance
   • 1975, Anke de Vries, Het geheim van Mories Besjoer, Lemniscaat, 59.

     Ze beschrijven uitvoerig hoe Maurice te hulp schoot, toen hij gegil hoorde, hoe hij iemand had zien wegvluchten uit de kamer en dat hij het was geweest, die een ambulance had gebeld.

   • 1979, Rubberen Robbie, "De ambulance", Zuipen (CD).

     Twee, drie, weken geleden kwam de ambulance / Bij onze buurman hier net om de hoek

Synonyms

• ziekenauto
• ziekenwagen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ambulans
• ? Indonesian: ambulans

French

Etymology

From Latin ambulans, present participle of ambul? (“I walk, I go about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by.l??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. ambulance

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ambulance (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ambulance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English ambulance and French ambulance.

Noun

ambulance f (plural ambulances)

1. (Jersey) ambulance