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yammed

yammed is the simple past and past participle of yam.

Meaning of yam

Verb (1)

yam (third-person singular simple present yams, present participle yamming, simple past and past participle yammed)

  1. (UK, slang) To eat.
    • “If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 78

Verb (2)

yam (third-person singular simple present yams, present participle yamming, simple past and past participle yammed)

  1. (especially) To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.

See all 11 meanings of yam

Questions about yammed

What is yammed the simple past and past participle of?
Yammed is the simple past and past participle of yam.

Words near yammed in the dictionary

  1. YAML
  2. yamless
  3. yamlike
  4. yamma
  5. yammas
  6. yammed
  7. yammer
  8. yammer on
  9. yammered
  10. yammered on
  11. yammerer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yammed (page history and authors); yam (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.

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