waesome

[Scotch wae =woe; suff. -some.] Woeful, sad. ( Scotch.) "So piteously sad and we some."-Scott: Rob Roy, ch. XXXV. wae'-sücks, interj. [Scotch wae (1), s., and sake.] Alas! O the pity. ( Scotch.) "Waesucks! for him that gets nae la ." Burns: The Holy Fair. waf, waff, adj . [Prob. a variant of waif (q. v.).] Worthle , insignificant, paltry, low, mean. ( Scotch .) "Is it not an oddlike thing that ilka waf carle in the country has a son and heir."-Scott: Guy Manner ing, ch. xxxix.