Womble

Meaning

Noun

• A fictional pointy-nosed furry creature. They are supposed to live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways.
• A nickname of Wimbledon Football Club.

Origin

• Created by author Elisabeth Beresford; they originally appeared in a series of children's novels from 1968. The name was suggested to the author by her young daughter's mispronunciation of the place name "Wimbledon" as "Wombledon" . The books centre on the activities of a group of the creatures who live on Wimbledon Common.