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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)

  1. (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!"
  2. To stick, adhere.
References
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Possibly from clementine, a small round citrus fruit.

Noun

clem (plural clems)

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

References

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

Anagrams

  • ECML

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clm

Translingual

Symbol

clm

  1. (metrology) Symbol for centilumen, an SI unit of luminous flux equal to 10?2 lumens.

English

Noun

clm

  1. Abbreviation of claim.

Anagrams

  • CML, LMC, MCL, MLC, lcm

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