Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
wem .
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Examples
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She answered: 'Nay; into the Cleves envoy's weam.'
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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"Noo," he shouted, "haud off an 'let the young maister go, or I'll slit the bag's weam."
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870
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"But what do you mean?" inquired I. "I mean," said he, drawing the edge and feeling the point of his weapon, "to put it into the weam of that man with the gold podge on his shoulder, who has dared to place me here."
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820
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The mything smile of me, my wholesole assumption, shes nowt me-without as weam twin herewithin, that I love like myselfish, like smithereens robinsongs, like juneses nutslost, like the blue of the sky if I stoop for to spy’s between my whiteyoumightcallimbs.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I'd ha 'slit the weam o' ivery ane! "panted the piper.
Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870
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