Word.ws English Dictionary

demme

demme is the alternative form of damme.

Meaning of damme

Interjection

  1. (archaic) Expressing anger or vehemence.
    • He was ſtretched upon a ſopha—with boots on—a terrier lay on one ſide of him, and he occaſionally embraced a large hound, which licked his face and hands, while he thus addreſſed it.—“Oh! thou dear bitchy—thou beautiful bitchy—damme, if I don’t love thee better than my mother or my ſiſters.”1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter V. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 57

Questions about demme

What is demme the alternative form of?
Demme is the alternative form of damme.

Words near demme in the dictionary

  1. demixing
  2. demixings
  3. demixion
  4. Demler
  5. Demlers
  6. demme
  7. Demmick
  8. demmie
  9. demmies
  10. Demmons
  11. Demmonses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: demme (page history and authors); damme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “demme.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/demme. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.