wamble-cropped

English

Alternative forms

• womblety-cropped

Etymology

Mid-16th century. From wamble (“nausea”) +‎ cropped (“stomached”).

Adjective

wamble-cropped (comparative more wamble-cropped, superlative most wamble-cropped)

1. (slang) Sick from excessive eating or drinking.

   Synonyms: crapulous; see also Thesaurus:nauseated

   • 1854, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York:

     looking as peaked and wamble-cropped as a sick lamb

   • 2007, Michael C. White, Soul Catcher:

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

2. (archaic, slang) Crestfallen; dejected.

   Synonyms: unhappy; see also Thesaurus:sad

   • 1922, John Herbert Quick, Vandemark's Folly:

     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.

Quotations

• 1897, Bernard Capes, The Lake of Wine:

  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.

• 2022, Michael Fraser, The Day-Breakers:

  The buckfever, wamble-cropped air swells with the spiced aroma

References

• “wamble-cropped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.