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wae

American  
[wey] / weɪ /

noun

Scot. and North England.
  1. woe.


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At Joy, also in Maryland, executive pastry chef Genesis Flores has put ube soft serve on the menu, coupled with salted peanut caramel, lemon-ginger syrup, honeycomb toffee, bee pollen and wae pieces.

From Salon • May 16, 2024

Far from being the work of drunken printers, this is Britain's Initial Teaching Alphabet ?a nue wae too lern too reed and riet that Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle last month pronounced "a remarkable success."

From Time Magazine Archive

He need only answer in the negative, and there wae no harm done.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

"There is a lady in that castell45 Will sinder you and I"— "Betide me weal, betide me wae, I sall gang there and try."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

It is thought they hae carried her after that Satan of a creature, wha wrought sae muckle wae about the house.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James