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発音

• IPA^(key): /klɛm/
• 韻: -ɛm

語源 1

Inherited from Middle English *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 (三人称単数 現在形 clems, 現在分詞 clemming, 過去形および過去分詞形 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!"

参照

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

語源 2

Possibly from clementine, a small round citrus fruit.

名詞

clem (複数形 clems)

1. (Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.

参照

• clem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

動詞

clem (三人称単数 現在形 clems, 現在分詞 clemming, 過去形および過去分詞形 clemmed)

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

アナグラム

• ECML