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Wase vs Wame - What's the difference?

wase | wame |

As nouns the difference between wase and wame

is that wase is (uk|dialect) a bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head while wame is (scotland|northern england) the belly.

wase

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
    • (Halliwell)
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    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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