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clemming

clemming is the present participle and gerund of clem.

Meaning of clem

Verb

clem (third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive) 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!"1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110

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Questions about clemming

What is clemming the present participle and gerund of?
Clemming is the present participle and gerund of clem.

Words near clemming in the dictionary

  1. Clemmensen reduction
  2. Clemmensen reductions
  3. Clemmer
  4. Clemmie
  5. clemmies
  6. clemming
  7. Clemmons
  8. Clemmonses
  9. clemmy
  10. Clemons
  11. clems

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