What does clem mean?
Clem means (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve..
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/klɛm/ · verb
(UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) 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!
Use clem when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clem means (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve..
Common synonyms include clemmy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"[…] 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!"
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