wabble2 (wobl)

[A dial. var. of warbles, n.] The larva of the emasculating bot-fly, Cut i terebra emasculator, which infests squirrels in the United States; also, the injury or affection resulting from its presence. See warbles, and cut under Cut i terebra. Also worble. A very large percentage [of fifty chipmunks]... infested with wabbles . were Rep . of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture (1889), I. 215. An old name of the great Jo elyn, New England wabble3t (wob'l), n. auk, Alca impennis . Rarities Discovered. wabbler (wob'ler), n. [ Dismal sounds may expre dismal emotions, and soft sounds soft emotions, and wabbly sounds uncertain emotions. E. Gurney, Nineteenth Century, XIII. 446.