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wems

wems is the plural of wem.

Meaning of wem

Noun

wem (plural wems)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
    • Smock, climbe a-pace, that I maie see my ioyes; / Oh heauen and paradize are all but toyes / Compar'd with this sight I now behould, / Which well might keepe a man from being olde. / A prettie rysing wombe without a weame / That shone as bright as anie siluer streame ...1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines

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Wems is the plural of wem.

Words near wems in the dictionary

  1. Wemotachie
  2. Wemotaci
  3. Wemotaci 23
  4. Wemotaci Indian Reserve No. 23
  5. Wemple
  6. wems
  7. Wemyss
  8. Wemyss Bay
  9. Wemysses
  10. wen
  11. Wen'an

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