Wame

Origin

Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.

Full definition of wame

Noun

1. (Scotland, northern England) The belly.
• 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 26: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.----