clem
Word-form referencesclam
Pronunciations
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/klɛm/
Verb
To be hungry; starve.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
- Intransitive
- Transitive
- Examples
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More examples (1)
"[…] 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!
Noun
A brick or stone.
Usage- Geordie
- Teesside
- Slang
One stone (unit of mass).
Usage- Slang
A testicle.
Usage- Geordie
- Slang
- Vulgar
Word forms
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