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wame
English
Etymology
Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.
Noun
wame (plural wames)
- (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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 26:
- (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.
Anagrams
- meaw
Middle English
Noun
wame
- 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)
- belly
- womb
- (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."
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy (in English and Scots):
wame From the web:
eame
English
Noun
eame (plural eames)
- Obsolete form of eme. (an uncle).
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
- Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
Anagrams
- Amee, EMEA, Emae
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