clem
VerbSubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- //klɛm//
To be hungry; starve.
Verb
- 1
To be hungry; starve.
"[…] 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!"
Who are half clemmed from year’s end to year’s end, and see no close to it, no hope, no finish but the pauper’s deals!
Herkunft
Inherited from Middle English *clemmen, *clammen, from Old English 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]”).
Substantiv
- 1
SlangA brick or stone.
- 2
SlangOne stone (unit of mass).
- 3
SlangA testicle.
Herkunft
From Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, equivalent to cloam. Similar linguistic development led to the Northumbrian pronunciation of hyem, equivalent to the RP home.
Verb
- 1
Variante von clamAlternative form of clam (“to adhere”).
Formen
- Plural
- clems
- Präteritum
- clemmed
- Partizip II
- clemmed
- Partizip I
- clemming
- 3. Person Singular
- clems