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cammed, a. Obs. exc. dial.|kæmd|
[app. extended from cam a.; cf. wicked.]
†1. = camois; having a cam or camois nose. Obs.
c1350Sat. Blacksmiths in Rel. Ant. I. 240 The cammede kongons cryen after col! col! c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 14 Rounde was hese face and kammede was hese nose. c1440Promp. Parv. 59 Cammyd, or schort nosyd, simus.
2. Crooked, perverse. dial.
c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Tummus & M. Wks. (1862) 61 Its not to tell heaw camm'd things con happ'n! 1875E. Waugh Old Cronies vi. 60 (in Lanc. Gloss.) Thou'rt gettin' camm'd as a crushed whisket.
Hence ˈcammedness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 59 Chammydnesse [1499 cammednesse], simitas. |