a. dial. Also wembley, wombly. [f. WAMBLE sb. or v. + -Y1.]
1. Affected with nausea.
1872. Hartley’s Yorksh. Ditties, Ser. I. 104. He wor takken varry wamley for want ov a bit ov a bitin on.
1892. Mrs. S. Batson, Dark, I. iv. 75. If they went without their meal they would be ‘wombly’ all the morning.
2. Causing nausea.
1899. ‘Zack,’ On Trail, xxiii. 187. ’Pon my Sam he lies that heavy on the gorge o’ me I’d a deal liefer spue the wambly gawkin out and be done wi’ un.
3. Shaky, tottering, unsteady.
1857. E. Waugh, Lanc. Life, 106. Eh! he used to be as limber as a treawt when he’re young; but neaw he’s as wambley an’ slamp as a barrow full o’ warp sizin’.
1893. Stevenson, Catriona, xi. I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him.
Hence Wambliness.
1900. E. Phillpotts, Sons of Morning, I. ix. 90. It do bring him a wambliness of the innards to do or say ought as may draw the public eye upon un.
