different between chem vs clem
chem
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
chem (uncountable)
- (college slang) Abbreviation of chemistry; commonly capitalized, short for the subject or the department.
Anagrams
- Emch, Mech., mech, mech.
Romanian
Verb
chem
- first-person singular present indicative of chema
- first-person singular present subjunctive of chema
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clem
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
Compare clam (“to clog”), or German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, adhere (to a surface)”), Icelandic klmbra, English clamp.
Verb
clem (third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed)
- (Britain, 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!"
- 1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110:
- To stick, adhere.
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Etymology 2
Possibly from clementine, a small round citrus fruit.
Noun
clem (plural clems)
- (Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.
References
- clem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- ECML
clem From the web:
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- what clematis do i have
- what clematis are evergreen
- what clematis are in group 3
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