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語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 *clemmen, *clammen, from 古期英語 clemman, clæmman (“to press, surround”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch klemmen (“to jam, pinch, stick”), German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, stick [to a surface]”).

別の表記

• clam

動詞

clem (third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed)

1. (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
   • 1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110:

     " […] Here he's back home again, and without work, and without a penny, and thou knows t' little one and I were pretty well clemmed to death when thou got us a bit o' bread and meat last night. We were that!"

   • 1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “IX. Old Things”, in The Great House:

     Who are half clemmed from year’s end to year’s end, and see no close to it, no hope, no finish but the pauper’s deals!

参照

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

語源 2

From 古期英語 clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, equivalent to cloam. Similar linguistic development led to the Northumbrian pronunciation of hyem, equivalent to the RP home.

名詞

clem (plural clems)

1. (Northumberland, Geordie, Teesside, slang) A brick or stone.
2. (chiefly Hartlepool, slang, plural clem) One stone (unit of mass).
3. (Geordie, vulgar, slang) A testicle.

同意語

• clemmy

参照

• “clem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 3

動詞

clem (third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed)

1. Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”).

アナグラム

• ECML