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Clem

//klɛm// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A unisex given name.; A diminutive of the male given name Clement.
  2. 2
    A unisex given name.; A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.
Noun
  1. 1
    A brick or stone. Geordie, Teesside, slang
  2. 2
    One stone (unit of mass). slang
  3. 3
    A testicle. Geordie, slang, vulgar
Verb
  1. 1
    To be hungry; starve. UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive

    ""[…] 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!""

  2. 2
    Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”). alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English *clemmen, *clammen, from Old English clemman, clæmman (“to press, surround”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch klemmen (“to jam, pinch, stick”), German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, stick [to a surface]”).

Etymology 2

From Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, equivalent to cloam. Similar linguistic development led to the Northumbrian pronunciation of hyem, equivalent to the RP home.

Etymology 3

Shortening.

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