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wame

American  
[weym] / weɪm /

noun

  1. Scot. and North England. belly.


wame British  
/ weɪm /

noun

  1. dialect the belly, abdomen, or womb

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of wame

1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots ) wayme, variant of womb

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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

A nag wi' a wame and a mare wi' nane are no a gude pair.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

There's a word in my wame, but it's ower far down.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Ye 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.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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