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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dialectal form of womb.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Scotland The belly.

Etymologies

  1. Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “He walked slowly back around the stones, still looking, a growing sense of deep cold curling through his wame.”

    Simon & Schuster: Songs of Love & Death

  • “Now that I am older and wiser, I first try a bit of greasy dissimulation with the referee, while at the wame time pointing out the matters of fact where the referee is wrong to the editor and that suggesting the referee is incompetent.”

    Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes « Climate Audit

  • “A typical error is touching the other the wame way we like to be touched.”

    Archive 2006-12-01

  • “I am so weary of reports that are without foundation and threats that go without fulfilment, and so much occupied besides by the raging troubles of my own wame, that I have been very slack on politics, as I have been in literature.”

    Vailima Letters

  • “Jamie smiled at that, but made no answer, though a queer feeling rose in his wame at the thought.”

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

  • “He wished to refuse, to say that there was not a moment to be lost, that he could eat nothing in any case; his wame was knotted, hurting him.”

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

  • “He felt an unpleasant tightness in his wame, though he was not surprised to hear it.”

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

  • “I've a kind of a griping in the wame, " he interrupted blandly.”

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

  • “Jamie stepped to the side, shifted weight back on one leg, and hooked the lad in the liver with a vicious left that drove his wame into his backbone and doubled him over with a whoof.”

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

  • “It was only that now and then a whiff of lavender took him unawares, and sent a sudden surge of sickness through his wame.”

    Drums of Autumn

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