This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word: Wamblecropt!
This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word Is:
This fancy (but perhaps not so fun) word describes how you feel after eating 100 Kit Kat bars. Or an entire birthday cake. Or you had too many margaritas at your birthday party. And the word sounds like the physical feeling of being overcome with nausea… a mishmash of the rumble in your stomach and the wobble in your step.
Etymology:
Origins Of The Word Wamblecropt
Middle English (1300-50) wamlen; akin to Danish vamle to become nauseated, Latin Vomere to vomit + crop a term for stomach + ed. [1] Wamblecropt (also wamble-cropped) first appeared in the Abecedarium Anglico Latinum of 1552. [2]
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Endnotes:
[1] wamblecropt: Merriam Webster.com
[2] Huloet, Richard. Abecedarium Anglico Latinum, pro tyrunculis Richardo Huloeto exscriptore. London: [S. Mierdman] ex officina Gulielmi Riddel, 1552. https://archive.org/details/abcedariumanglic00hulo/page/n407/mode/2up
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