clem

present singular third person clems · participle present clemming · participle past clemmed · past clemmed · alternative clam

1. UKdialectalintransitivetransitiveTo be hungry; starve.

   Who are half clemmed from year’s end to year’s end, and see no close to it, no hope, no finish but the pauper’s deals!

   1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “IX. Old Things”, in The Great House

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   "[…] 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

plural clems

1. GeordieTeessideslangNorthumberlandA brick or stone.
2. slangchiefly Hartlepool; plural clem; chiefly Hartlepool; plural clemOne stone (unit of mass).
3. GeordieslangvulgarA testicle.

present singular third person clems · participle present clemming · participle past clemmed · past clemmed

1. alternativeAlternative form of clam (“to adhere”).

1. A unisex given name.
   1. A diminutive of the male given name Clement.
   2. A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.