Green’s Dictionary of Slang

suffering from an upset stomach due to excessive drinking.

1552		R. Huloet , Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wamble cropped, stomachichus. [Ibid.] Wamble stomaked to be, nauseo.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Womble te-cropt see Crop-sick.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: womble-Ty-Cropt the Indisposition of a Drunkard after a Debauch in Wine or other Liquors.
1737		B. Franklin ‘Drinkers Dictionary’ in Pennsylvania Gazette 6 Jan. in AS XII:2 90: They come to be well understood to signify plainly that a man is drunk. [...] Wamble Crop’d.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Womblety cropt, the indisposition of a drunkard, after a debauch.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1833		S. Smith Major Downing (1834) 179: I begin to grow a little kind of wamble-cropt about going to South Carolina.
1844		‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life in N.Y. I 167: In we went, eat and drank, and then out agin; and then it was riding from one house to another, and eating and drinking till it got eenajest dark, and I was clear tuckered out, besides beginning tu feel wamble-cropped a leetle.
c.1850		F.M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) 109: The gals all tittered, and Liddy Ann lookt wonderful womblescropt.
1888		J.P. Smith Widow Goldsmith’s Daughter 208: It was enough to make anybody wamble-cropped to hear the awful story you kept on telling all the way.
1889		Farmer Americanisms 551: Wamble-Cropped. — A curious New England phrase for sickness at the stomach. Its meaning has been idiomatically extended to convey the idea of abasement and humiliation.
1895		Forest & Stream 45 832: When a feller’s done that an’ fetches up ag’in a tame swarm in someb’dy’s do’ yard it makes him feel kinder wamble-cropped.