different between naartjie vs clem

English

Alternative forms

• naartje
• nartjie

Etymology

From Tamil ??????? (n?rattai, “citron”) through Afrikaans. Has been used in South Africa since 1790. Appearing in English as naartje in 1901, in this spelling by Lawrence Green in Tavern of the Seas, 1947.

Noun

naartjie (plural naartjies)

1. (South Africa) Citrus reticulata (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.

References

• Jean Branford: A dictionary of South African English. Oxford 1978.
• Google Language Tools.

Afrikaans

Noun

naartjie (plural naartjies, diminutive naartjietjie)

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of nartjie

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