adjective
General Slang
clammin
· adjective · geordie
Geordie for starving — properly hungry, not just peckish.
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Very hungry — the kind of hungry where you'd eat the leg off the table. From the older northern English clem, meaning to be pinched with hunger. Geordies drop the g and stretch it out: clammin'.
“When's tea? I'm absolutely clammin'.”
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clammin In A Sentence
When's tea? I'm absolutely clammin'.
Origin & Usage
From clem, an old northern/Midlands English verb meaning to starve or be pinched with cold or hunger, attested from the 16th century.
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