Wame vs Ware - What's the difference?
wame | ware |
(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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(obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
(uncountable, usually, in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
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(in the plural) See wares .
(uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
(countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
(Ireland) Crockery
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To beware of something.
(obsolete) wary; cautious
* Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 15
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(obsolete, UK, dialect) seaweed
(nautical) To wear, or veer.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between wame and ware
is that wame is the belly while ware is the state of being aware; heed.As an adjective ware is
aware.As a verb ware is
to beware of something.As a proper noun Ware is
a town in Hertfordshire, England.wame
English
Noun
(en noun)ware
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Usage notes
Replaced by intensified form aware.Derived terms
* bewareNoun
(-)- (Wyclif)
Etymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- damascene ware''', ''tole ' ware
Derived terms
* (Corded Ware culture) * -wareEtymology 3
From (etyl) warianVerb
(war)Adjective
(en adjective)- Of whom be thou ware also.
- He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.
