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English
Etymology
Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.
Noun
wame (plural wames)
- (Scotland, Northern England) The belly.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 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.
- (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
wame
- Alternative form of wombe
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English wambe, wame, wamb, forms of womb (“belly, womb”), from Old English wamb (“belly”).
Noun
wame (plural wames)
- belly
- womb
- (figuratively) heart, mind
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy (in English and Scots):
"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."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)