verb (used with object), verb (used without object), clemmed, clem·ming. British Dialect.
to starve.
Origin:
1530–40; akin to Middle English forclemmed (past participle) pinched with hunger, Old English beclemman to fetter
1530–40; akin to Middle English forclemmed (past participle) pinched with hunger, Old English beclemman to fetter
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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| —vb , clems, clemming, clemmed, clams, clamming, clammed | |
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| [C16: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch, German klemmen to pinch, cramp; compare Old English beclemman to shut in] | |
| clam or clam | |
| —vb | |
| [C16: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch, German klemmen to pinch, cramp; compare Old English beclemman to shut in] | |
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