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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Northumbria, Geordie, Teesside, plural "clemmies") A stone (rock), particularly one that is thrown..
The column, as the admirable Margery points out, is in no position to cast the first clemmy.
The nets are held down by what in those parts are known as clemmies, the dressing room's in a broken windowed community centre a quarter of a mile away, the game's watched by half a dozen Januses with an eye on the adjoining pitch.
A little boy – let's call him Fergus, because that's what his mother did – climbed to the top of the tree house and took great pleasure in hoyin' clemmies at the people below.
Use clemmy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clemmy means (Northumbria, Geordie, Teesside, plural "clemmies") A stone (rock), particularly one that is thrown..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The column, as the admirable Margery points out, is in no position to cast the first clemmy.
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