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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