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Wame vs Wawe - What's the difference?

wame | wawe |

As nouns the difference between wame and wawe

is that wame is (scotland|northern england) the belly while wawe is (obsolete) a wave.

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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    wawe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wave.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913) And fro the navele doun al covered was With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas The Kinght's Tale (Chaucer, ll. 1099-1100)