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wame

wame noun: the belly.

Noun

wame (plural wames)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) The 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
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) The womb.

Forms of wame

pluralwames
alternative form (obsolete)weamb

Origin of wame

Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.

Words formed from wame

Questions about wame

What does wame mean?
Wame means the belly.
What part of speech is wame?
Wame is a noun.
What is the plural of wame?
The plural of wame is wames.

Words near wame in the dictionary

  1. Wambool
  2. Wambrook
  3. wambulance
  4. wambulances
  5. Wambutti
  6. wame
  7. wameful
  8. wamefuls
  9. wamen
  10. wamens
  11. wames

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