adj. phr. (colloquial).—Wretched, humiliated: also WOMBLE-CROPPED.
1848. SEBA SMITH (‘Major Downing’), Letter front Baton Rouge, June 15. I never saw Captain Jumper so wilted down before, and that made me feel so WAMBLE-CROPT I could not say a word.
1856. WHITCHER, The Widow Bedott Papers, 284. The cappen he looked awful WOMBLECROPT—I declare, I raly pitied the poor man … I never see such an oncomfortable lookin’ countenance.
