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name
A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Clement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.
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noun
A brick or stone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie, Teesside, slang
Qualifier: Northumberland
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noun
One stone (unit of mass).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: chiefly Hartlepool; plural clem; chiefly Hartlepool; plural clem
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noun
A testicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie, slang, vulgar
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verb
To be hungry; starve.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive
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verb
Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
Shortening.
From Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, equivalent to cloam. Similar linguistic development led to the Northumbrian pronunciation of hyem, equivalent to the RP home.
Inherited from Middle English *clemmen, *clammen, from Old English clemman, clæmman (“to press, surround”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch klemmen (“to jam, pinch, stick”), German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, stick [to a surface]”).
Across languages
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