grame
grame noun: anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
Noun
grame (uncountable)
- Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- Sorrow; grief; misery.
- to save the from the Blame
of all my greffe & gramea. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4 - Age doth me mvche grame.1548, Smyth & Dame, section 218
- to save the from the Blame
Verb
grame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)
- To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
- Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.
For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235
- Synonyms:
- affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom
- Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.
- To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
- The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence, published 1864
Synonyms of grame
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- gall
- get
- get to
- honk off
- incense
- inflame
- infuriate
- madden
- make angry
- nark
- offend
- outrage
- provoke
- put out
- rankle
- rile
- piss off
- roil
- set off
- steam
- tick off
- get one's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up
- make someone see red
- make someone's blood boil
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- raise someone's shag
Forms of grame
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | gram |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grames |
| present participle | graming |
| past participle | gramed |
| past | gramed |
Origin of grame
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.
From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).
Questions about grame
- What does grame mean?
- Grame means anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- What part of speech is grame?
- Grame can be a noun or a verb.
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