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wames

wames is the plural of wame.

Meaning of wame

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.

Questions about wames

What is wames the plural of?
Wames is the plural of wame.

Words near wames in the dictionary

  1. wame
  2. wameful
  3. wamefuls
  4. wamen
  5. wamens
  6. wames
  7. wammikin
  8. wammikins
  9. wammus
  10. wammuses
  11. wamp

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