How to use wame in a sentence
I ne'er lo'ed water in my shoon, and my wame's made o' better leather.
The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander HislopThe wame-ill was the prevalent type of sickness in the great Scots famine of 1439, a year of famine in England and France.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonHere's health to the sick, stilts to the lame; claise to the back, and brose to the wame.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character | Edward Bannerman RamsayStand back there, fat loon, gin ye wantna a quarrel shot intil that swagging tallow-bag ye ca' your wame!
The Black Douglas | S. R. CrockettYe lie on your wame a bittie in the bield of this wood, and ye tell me that ye've cuist off these Frasers and Macgregors.
David Balfour, Second Part | Robert Louis Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for wame
/ (weɪm) /
Scot and Northern English dialect the belly, abdomen, or womb
Origin of wame
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