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wame Sc. and north.|weɪm|
Forms: 5–6 wayme, 6 weyme, 6–7 weame, 6 waymb, wamb(e, 7 weamb, 7–8 wem, wemb, 8 weme, weem, wyme, 9 waim, 7– weam, 4– wame. For mod. dial. forms see Eng. Dial. Dict.
[Northern form of womb.]
1. The belly, abdomen: = womb in obsolete senses. Cf. belly n. 1–3.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. 45 Þan Ayot tit out smertly His suerde..And put it in his wayme sa fast Qwhil hilt and plumat bath in past. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 677/14 Hic venter, Hic alvuus, a wame. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 92 The fowll monstir Glutteny, Off wame vnsasiable and gredy. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 138 Sum wald haue welth at thair will, and sum thare wame fow. Ibid. xi. xv. 105 His taill, that on hys ryg befor tymes lay, Vnder hys waymb [he] lattis fall abasitly. 15..Sir Andrew Barton lvi. in Child Ballads IV. 505/2 Then Horsley with a broode-headed arrowe, Stroke then Girdon throughe the weame. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xiv. (S.T.S.) I. 184 Þare hail sollicitude..was direkkit to na vthir fyne, bot alanerlie for the plesere of þe wame. 1566Burgh Rec. Edin. (1875) III. 226 The saidis flescheouris pullis the haill [sheep] skyn fra the hals doun to the taill throw al the wambe thairof. 1785Burns Scotch Drink v, Food fills the wame, an' keeps us livin. 1817Scott Rob Roy xxxi, It would be a daft-like thing to see me wi' my fat wame in a short Hieland coat. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 63 At Diston's feet he lichtet fair, Wayme uppermost, and wamblit there. a1894Stevenson St. Ives xxxvi. (1898) 310 He's in bed this hour past with a spoonful of peppermint in his little wame.
phrase.1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xi, But when he tauld his story, he got but the worst word in his wame—thief, beggar, and dyvour, were the saftest terms.
b. The womb, uterus; = belly n. 7. † great wame pred. phr. = great (with child).
c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. 1878 Gret wayme wiþe barne þe lady was. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 40 [He] was in his moderis wame quhen his fader deid. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 131 Quhen that caribald carll wald clym on my wambe. 1787W. Taylor Sc. Poems 35 (E.D.D.) Man naked comes frae Minnie's wyme.
c. (See quot.)
1847Stoddart Angler's Comp. 161 Salmon-roe as a bait for angling with..is either cured entire, that is, as it is taken from the fish in the form of what is provincially termed the waim; or..reduced to a paste.
†2. In the 17th c. the dial. word seems to have been adopted (in the forms wem, wemb, weamb) in southern use as a jocular substitute for ‘belly’.
1611L. Barry Ram Alley v. i. H 3 b, I will home,..and drinke some Aquauita To sweeten breath, and keepe my weame from wambling. 1651H. More Enthus. Tri. (1656) L 2, Agrippa's Cur sure kennels in thy weamb, Thou yelpest so and barkest in a dream. 1691Long Vacation 6 If not their Purse, their Wems they fill. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem., Lond. 37 Stuffing their Wembs at Churchings. 1710Addison Whig Examiner No. 4 ⁋12 He clapped his hand to his sword, and told him, were he a man..he would have run him through the wemb. 1719Ozell tr. Misson's Trav. Eng. 105 For two and thirty Days they satisfy'd the Decree of the Oracle, without being oblig'd to expose any human Creature to the Monster's Wem. 1720Swift Descr. Irish Feast Misc. 1735 V. 17 A Blow on the Weam. 1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 417 And in his weem he felt a motion As if he'd ta'en a purging potion.
3. transf. The cavity, or the protuberant part of a thing: = belly n. 11, 12.
a1765Northumberland betrayed by Douglas xxi. in Child Ballads III. 412/2 Shee let him see thorrow the weme of her ring. 1816Scott Antiq. vii, And here or yonder—at the back o' a dyke, in a wreath o' snaw, or in the wame o' a wave, what signifies how the auld gaberlunzie dies?
†4. The belly-piece of a fur-skin. Obs. rare. Cf. womb.
1374Exch. Rolls Scot. II. 466 In empcione de xlij wamys de menyvaire.
5. Comb.: wame-ill † (a) an epidemic disease affecting the stomach; (b) = stomach-ache.
c1500Auchinleck Chron. (1819) 4 Þe wame Ill was so violent, þt thar deit ma þt ȝere þan euir thar deit ouder euir that deit ouder in pestilens. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 318 The weam-eill, the wild-fire, the vomit and the vees. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss., Wame-ill, an ache or pain in the intestines. |