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Wame vs Eame - What's the difference?

wame | eame |

As nouns the difference between wame and eame

is that wame is (scotland|northern england) the belly while eame is (label) (a form of) (an uncle).

wame

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
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    eame

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) (A form of) (an uncle).
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book IV, xlix:
  • *:Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame .
  • :(Spenser)
    • (Webster 1913)