different between reem vs reim

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?m/, /????m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Etymology 1

From Biblical Hebrew ?????? (r'em).

Noun

reem (plural reems)

1. A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare unicorn).

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare ream (“to make a hole in”).

Verb

reem (third-person singular simple present reems, present participle reeming, simple past and past participle reemed)

1. (transitive, nautical) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

Etymology 3

Of unclear origins, popularised by Joey Essex. Possibly derived from cream or ream.

Adjective

reem (comparative reemer or more reem, superlative reemest or most reem)

1. (Britain, chiefly Essex, slang) cool, excellent; desirable; sexy.
   • 2011 June 13, Julie McCaffrey, "Forget a suntan, fake it, safely bake or soothe it", The Mirror:

     The cast of The Only Way Is Essex have tried every fake tan in the universe and insist this is best before a reem night out.

   • 2012, Becci Fox, Confessions of an Essex Girl: A Smart, Sexy and Scandalously Funny Expose, Pan Macmillan ?ISBN

     Imagine a totally reem Hogwarts where Harry Potter looks like he should be in a Wham! video while Hermione's always on her pink BlackBerry and trying to catch Ron's attention by rolling up her skirt higher and higher.

   • 2014, Joey Essex, Being Reem, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     Room service: The reemest way to get food! […] The party royal is the most reem though because he goes to Vegas.

References

Anagrams

• -mere, Emer., Mere, REME, erme, meer, mere

Middle English

Noun

reem

1. Alternative form of reme (“ream”)

Yola

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Etymology

From Middle English reme (“cream”).

Noun

reem

1. cream

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• riem

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch riem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?m/
• Homophones: ream, reem, reme, rheme

Noun

reim (plural reims)

1. (South Africa) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair and made pliable, used for twisting into ropes, etc..

References

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

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, Mire, emir, meri, mire, riem, rime

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rei?m/
• Rhymes: -ei?m

Noun

reim f (genitive singular reimar, nominative plural reimar)

1. strap, belt
2. shoelace

Declension

Synonyms

• (shoelace): skóreim

Derived terms

• skóreim

Anagrams

• ermi
• meir
• meri

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rem

Etymology

From Old Norse reim

Noun

reim f or m (definite singular reima or reimen, indefinite plural reimer, definite plural reimene)

1. a belt, strap

Derived terms

• klokkereim
• lærreim
• registerreim

References

• “reim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse reim.

Noun

reim f (definite singular reima, indefinite plural reimar or reimer, definite plural reimane or reimene)

1. a belt, strap

Derived terms

• klokkereim
• registerreim

References

• “reim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• meir, remi, rime

Old Norse

Noun

reim f (genitive reimar, plural reimar)

1. a lash, thong

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: reim
• Faroese: reim
• Norwegian Nynorsk: reim
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: reim
• Old Swedish: rem, reem
  • Swedish: rem
• Old Danish: rem, reem, røm
  • Danish: rem
    • Norwegian Bokmål: rem

References

• reim in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press