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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

She looked up at him with burning, tearless eyes; for she wae about to pluck her very heart out.

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

He was ance accounted rich, and I was—no lang syne yet—considered to hae some claims to beauty—twa things that hae produced a' my wae.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

He need only answer in the negative, and there wae no harm done.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford

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