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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

But she wae thoroughly in earnest—he could see that—and meant every word of it.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

Bonny, sir, as ony that ever walked the High Street or the Canongate; and the mair wae, sir.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

He turn'd him right and roun' about, And ane angry man was he;30 "O wae to you, my dame, the queen; Ye might ha'e excepted me!"

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

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