See also: waʔme

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Etymology

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Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.

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wame (plural wames)

  1. (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.
  2. (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.

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Middle English

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wame

  1. Alternative form of wombe

Scots

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Etymology

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

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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."
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