wame
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wame
1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots ) wayme, variant of womb
Example Sentences
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When Lancelot saw her waiting for him at the table, with Arthur beside her, the heart-sack broke in his wame, and the love inside it ran about his veins.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
I'm not thinking it any more, and all the less since I was robbed of my venerable pocket-book, with those two exhibits o' the crime in its wame.
From Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
He that has a wide wame ne'er had a lang arm.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"O I did get the rose-water Whair ye wull neir get nane, For I did get that very rose-water95 Into my mithers wame."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
But Peter had bade wi' her near forty year, Fine acquaint wi' her weel-soopled jaw, Sae he lowsed his tap button for ease till his wame, Wi' a gant at the wag-at-the-wa'.
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
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