TO NAIL TWA WAMES THEGITHER, verb. phr. (Scots venery).—To copulate: see GREENS and RIDE. [WAME = belly.] Hence TO GET THE WAME UP = to be got with child, to be LUMPY (q.v.).
1568. Bannatyne MSS., ‘The Use of Court’ (Hunterian Club’s Reprint), 765.
| VP GETTIS HIR WAME, | |
| Scho thinkis no schame, | |
| For to bring hame, | |
| The laird a horne. |
