Meaning of wamble-cropped | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach.
2. Feeling uneasy; anxious, worried.
   figuratively

Examples

“[A prattler or babbler] inquireth further, hovv many columnes are in the Odeus: and yeſterday he ſayth, I vvas vvamble-cropt, and (ſauing your preſence) parbrak't: And vvhat day of the moneth is this? But if any man lend⟳ him attention, he ſhall neuer be cleare of him.”

“When she'd read⟳ her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb.”

“I rode over early to ask⟳ if you'd put⟳ up for the Wilton hunt, and found your furniture here unpackin' and Dennis lookin' on, like⟳ a wamble-cropped sentryman.”

“He was wamble-cropped in the bowels, complaining of stomach pains and cramps, followed by bouts of uncontrollable diarrhea.”

“Mornings, they craunch clove / stems to freshen raffish breath. The buck- / fever, wamble-cropped air swells with / the spiced aroma, humming like⟳ a / pawky gadabout through cough-filled halls.”

“They went off grumbling, and consarnedly wamble-cropped, for a reward⟳ had been offered for the purty French gal's brother, and the etarnal scamp meant to git his revenge on her and money to boot.”

“[W]hen he asked me if I was scared of the Bunkers, it nettled me; […] I felt just as good as any one, but I was a little wamble-cropped when I thought that I shouldn't know⟳ how to behave.”

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