wankle
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
wankle (comparative more wankle, superlative most wankle)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Weak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on.
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Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wankel, wankill, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.
Adjective edit
wankle (comparative mair wankle, superlative maist wankle)
- weak
- unsteady
- G. Stuart
- Your wankle leggs canno support ye / Sae sit ye down, till I exhort ye.
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- G. Stuart