Chammed vs Crammed - What's the difference?
chammed | crammed |
(cham)
* 1840 , Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War?
An autocrat or dominant critic, especially .
* 1997': "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the '''Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
* 2007': The Tonsons would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great '''Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, ''London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3
(obsolete) To chew.
* 1531 , William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
(cram)
The act of cramming.
Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
To ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
To fill with food to ; to stuff.
To put through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
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To , and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude or study.
As verbs the difference between chammed and crammed
is that chammed is (cham) while crammed is (cram).chammed
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Verb
(head)cham
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) cham, from (etyl) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).Noun
(en noun)- But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter
Etymology 2
See chap.Verb
(chamm)- But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming , or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]
