Sc. [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. Latto, Tam. Bodkin, xviii. 176. He … had gotten his wamefu’ o’ guid whey-whullions.
