# wamble-cropped
## English
### Etymology

From wamble (“uneasiness in the stomach; nausea”) +‎ crop (“(Britain, dialectal, especially Scotland) stomach”) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒmb(ə)lˌkɹɒpt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈwɑmb(ə)lˌkɹɑpt/
* Hyphenation: wamb‧le-crop‧ped

### Adjective

wamble-cropped (comparative more wamble-cropped, superlative most wamble-cropped) (archaic except US, humorous, informal)
* Nauseated; also, feeling sick or unsettled in the stomach. [from mid 16th c.]
    (nauseated): Synonyms: crapulous; see also Thesaurus:nauseated
** a. 1611 (date written), Theophrastus, “Theophrasti Characteres Ethicæ: Theophrastus His Morall Characters: Or Description of Maners. 3. Of Garrulitie.”, in Jo[hn] Healey, transl., Epictetus Manuall. Cebes Table. Theophrastus Characters, London: […] R. B[adger?] and are to be sold by Iohn Stafford, published 1636, →OCLC, page 14:[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.
** 1843, Jonathan Slick [pseudonym; Ann Sophia Stephens], “Letter XI. Visit to the Park Theatre.—First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as Written on the Air, in the Ærial Fetes of Mademoiselle Celeste.—First Shock at the Exhibition of a Ballet Costumè, Accompanied by the ‘Twinkles’ of Celeste’s Feet—with Her Pigeon Wings, Double-shuffles, Gallopades and Pirouettes.”, in High Life in New York, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Edward Stephens, Brother Jonathan Office, […], →OCLC, page 47, column 1:When she'd read her letter through, she went into the house agin, looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb.
** 1898, Bernard Capes, chapter XIX, in The Lake of Wine (Appletons’ Town and Country Library; no. 239), D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 128: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.
** 2007, Michael [C.] White, chapter 2, in Soul Catcher, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 21:He was wamble-cropped in the bowels, complaining of stomach pains and cramps, followed by bouts of uncontrollable diarrhea.
** 2022, Michael Fraser, “Goshen”, in The Day-breakers, Windsor, Ont.: Biblioasis, →ISBN, page 24: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.
* (figurative) Feeling uneasy; anxious, worried.
** 1843, Jonathan Slick [pseudonym; Ann Sophia Stephens], “Letter XI. Visit to the Park Theatre.—First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as Written on the Air, in the Ærial Fetes of Mademoiselle Celeste.—First Shock at the Exhibition of a Ballet Costumè, Accompanied by the ‘Twinkles’ of Celeste’s Feet—with Her Pigeon Wings, Double-shuffles, Gallopades and Pirouettes.”, in High Life in New York, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Edward Stephens, Brother Jonathan Office, […], →OCLC, page 47, column 2: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.
** 1922, [John] Herbert Quick, “I Save a Treasure, and Start a Feud”, in Vandemark’s Folly, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 267:[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.

#### Alternative forms

* wamble-cropt, womblety-cropped

#### Related terms

* wamble
* wambly (Britain, dialectal)

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “wamble-cropped, adj.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Further reading

* “wamble-cropped, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2024.
* “wamble-cropped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.