wame

[ weym ]

noun

1. Scot. and North England. belly.

wame

/ weɪm /

noun

1. dialect.
   the belly, abdomen, or womb

Word History and Origins

Origin of wame¹

1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots ) wayme, variant of womb

Word History and Origins

Origin of wame¹

C14: northern variant of womb

Example Sentences

When Lancelot saw her waiting for him at the table, with Arthur beside her, the heart-sack broke in his wame, and the love inside it ran about his veins.

From Literature

Wame, wām, n. a provincial form of womb.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

"O I did get the rose-water Whair ye wull neir get nane, For I did get that very rose-water95 Into my mithers wame."

From Project Gutenberg

"But air 'll no fill the wame."

From Project Gutenberg

I hae the auld, thumed, and faulded, and marked copy o' our domestic �sculapius yet; and, as I look at the store from which he used to draw the lore that enabled him to see, as if by a kind o' necromantic divination, a guid lucrative death, though still lodged in the wame o' futurity, I canna but drap a tear to the memory o' ane wha toiled sae hard for the sake o' his son.

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