rame

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/reɪm/

noun

A remark or complaint repeated incessantly.

OriginNorthern Middle English ramen ← Old English *hrāmian ← Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn →
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Meanings

rame1

noun

alternative raim · alternative rane · alternative rhame

  1. ScotlandA remark or complaint repeated incessantly.

    "Does he ever mention the king in his prayer?" "O yes: always." "What does he say about him?" "Something about the sceptre of righteousness, and the standard of truth. I ken he has some rhame about him."

    1818, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck
verbrame (third-person singular simple present rames, present participle raming, simple past and past participle ramed)

present singular third person rames · participle present raming · participle past ramed · past ramed · alternative raim · alternative rane · alternative rhame

  1. Northern EnglandScotlandTo complain or cry incessantly.

    The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally.

    1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling
  2. Northern EnglandScotlandTo talk nonsensically.

    Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder.

    1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission

rame2

nounrame (plural rames)

plural rames

  1. A stalk or branch, especially when dried.

    Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown With golden down Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves

    1886, Thomas Heney, Fortunate Days
  2. A framework or skeleton.
  3. anatomyThe bones of the body; skeleton.

Origin

rame · noun, verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kerey-“to scream, screech”
  2. Proto-Germanic*hraimōną“to scream”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*hraimōn
  4. Old English*hrāmian
  5. Northern Middle Englishramen“to cry out, scream”
  6. Englishrame

From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).

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rame · noun

  1. Proto-West Germanic*hramu“frame, support”
  2. Old Dutch*hrama
  3. Middle Dutchraem
  4. Middle Englishrame
  5. Englishrame

From late Middle English rame, from or akin to Middle Dutch raem, rame (“framework, frame”), from Old Dutch *hrama, from Proto-West Germanic *hramu (“frame, support”). Possible doublet of frame.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with rame

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Anagrams

marereamMeraErmaMaermearArem
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