wameful Sc.
(ˈweɪmfʊl)
[f. wame + -ful. Cf. wombful (Trevisa).]
= belly-ful.
| [1513: see wame 1.] 1722 Ramsay Three Bonnets iv. 39 To drink his wamefu' o' the sea. 1786 Burns Ded. G. Hamilton 12 This may do..wi' them wha Maun please the Great-folk for a wamefou. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's x, A wame-fu' is a wame-fu',..whether it be of the barleymeal or the bran. 1864 W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xviii. 176 He..had gotten his wamefu' o' guid whey-whullions. |