A delightful Scottish and northern English dialect word for a bellyful — the satisfying, slightly overwhelming amount of food you eat when a meal is really good. Wame is the dialectal word for womb or belly, so wameful literally means "a belly's worth." It's an expressive, almost onomatopoeic word that sounds exactly like the feeling of being comfortably stuffed after a good meal.
She had a wameful of stew and couldn't move from the chair for an hour.
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(Scotland, northern England) A bellyful.
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