Clem
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /klɛm/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Clem is a verb meaning (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
Meaning
(UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
More Meanings
- (Northumberland, Geordie, Teesside, slang) A brick or stone.
- (Geordie, vulgar, slang) A testicle.
- Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”).
- (chiefly Hartlepool, slang, plural clem) One stone (unit of mass).
Example Sentences
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!
"[…] 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!"
Word Forms
- clems
- clemming
- clemmed
Synonyms for clem
Depending on context, synonyms include clemmy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wait, clumse, cleep, cluck, chig, glutch.
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