different between kame vs wame

English

Etymology

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Noun

kame (plural kames)

1. (geology) A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

Anagrams

• make, meak

Chavacano

Pronoun

kame

1. we (exclusive; we and not you)

Japanese

Romanization

kame

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

kame

1. optative active singular of kamati (“to travel”)

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.

Anagrams

• meaw

Middle English

Noun

wame

1. Alternative form of wombe

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."