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Wame vs Waye - What's the difference?

wame | waye |

As nouns the difference between wame and waye

is that wame is (scotland|northern england) the belly while waye is .

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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    waye

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1667': I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justifie the '''wayes of God to men. — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 25-6
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