wame

wame

See also: waʔme

English

Etymology

Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.

Noun

wame (plural wames)

1. (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.

2. (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.

Alternative forms

• weamb (obsolete)

Anagrams

• EWMA, meaw

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Middle English

Noun

wame

1. Alternative form of wombe

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Scots

Alternative forms

• wam

Etymology

From Middle English wambe, wame, wamb, forms of womb (“belly, womb”), from Old English wamb (“belly”).

Noun

wame (plural wames)

1. belly
2. womb
3. (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."