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Definitions
To be hungry; starve.
Word origin
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]”).
Used in a sentence
“"[…] 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!"”
“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!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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