Meanings
nounwame (plural wames)
plural wames · alternative obsolete weamb
- Northern EnglandScotlandThe belly.
everybody knows what they are, the Gourdon fishers, they'd wring silver out of a corpse's wame and call stinking haddocks perfume fishes and sell them at a shilling a pair.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 26 - Northern EnglandScotlandThe womb.
Origin
- Old Englishwamb
- Englishwame
Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.
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