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▪ I. cramming, vbl. n.|ˈkræmɪŋ|
[f. cram v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb cram.
1. Stuffing over-full, over-feeding, etc.
1598Florio, Sagginatione, a pampring, a cramming, or feeding fat. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 558 The best food..for the cramming of all sorts of poultrie. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 44 b, The filling up or cramming of the middle of the Wall. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 618 People by frequent cramming stretch their stomach beyond its natural tone.
2. colloq. The imparting or acquiring of the knowledge of a subject hastily and for an occasion.
1821Southey Lett. (1856) III. 247 It will be better not for him to stand out for College next year, because it will require cramming. 1860Sat. Rev. IX. 308/1 Without a sort of preliminary cramming, no one could have depicted the peculiarities of an attorney's office. 1866Carlyle Inaug. Address 172 There is also a process called cramming, in some Universities—that is, getting up such points of things as the examiner is likely to put questions about.
attrib.1830Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 178 A paralytic stroke (probably caused by the cramming system). 1886W. Graham Soc. Problem 165 There are more large schools and cramming institutions.
▪ II. ˈcramming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That crams.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Univ. Wks. (Bohn) II. 93 A cramming tutor. |