See wamble on Wiktionary
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"A rumble of the stomach."
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"(dialect) A rumble of the stomach."
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"ref": "2015 October 29, Carrie Chang, Monkey-Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:",
"text": "His leathery shoes exuded some anachronistic wonder, with damp shimmer of copper buckles which changed color with remedy, easily in the light, and he wambled this way and that to the kitchen and wondered to himself about the many lives[…]",
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