verb
General Slang
clem
· verb · mancunian
To starve — to be ravenously hungry.
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To be starving hungry. Historic Lancashire and wider North West — if you're clemmed, you haven't eaten and you're suffering for it. Most often heard in the past participle.
“Get the chippy on, I'm clemmed.”
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clem In A Sentence
Get the chippy on, I'm clemmed.
Origin & Usage
Old English 'clemman' / Germanic root meaning to pinch or constrict — the idea being hunger pinching at you. Standard English up to the 1700s, now mainly Northern dialect.
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