wame
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.
Noun [edit]
wame (plural wames)
- (Scotland, northern England) The belly.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 26:
- everybody knows what they are, the Gourdon fishers, they'd wring silver out of a corpse's wame and call stinking haddocks perfume fishes and sell them at a shilling a pair.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 26:
Scots [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old English wamb (“belly”).
Noun [edit]
wame (plural wames)
- belly
- womb
- (figuratively) heart, mind
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
- "why, Andrew, you know all the secrets of this family.". "If I ken them, I can keep them," said Andrew; "they winna work in my wame like harm in a barrel, I'se warrant ye."
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
