Wame
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The belly. Northern-England, Scotland
"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."
- 2 The womb. Northern-England, Scotland
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.
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