clem

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brick or stone. Geordie,Teesside,slang
  2. One stone (unit of mass). slang
  3. A testicle. Geordie,slang,vulgar
动词 v.
  1. To be hungry; starve. UK,dialectal,intransitive,transitive
    — "[…] 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. Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”). alt-of,alternative

词形变化

clems present,singular,third-person clemming participle,present clemmed participle,past clemmed past clam alternative clems plural clems present,singular,third-person clemming participle,present clemmed participle,past clemmed past

词汇关系

近义词
clemmy

词源

词源 1
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]”).
词源 2
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.
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