Clammed vs Flammed - What's the difference?
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(clam)
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (, a huge East Indian bivalve.
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A kind of vise, usually of wood.
(US, slang) A dollar (usually used in the plural). Possibly originating from the term wampum.
(slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
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To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clamminess; moisture
* Carlyle
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
* L'Estrange
(flam)
A freak or whim.
A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
* All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion. 1692
* South
(obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
* South
Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
As verbs the difference between clammed and flammed
is that clammed is past tense of clam while flammed is past tense of flam.clammed
English
Verb
(head)clam
English
(wikipedia clam)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams' thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. ' Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
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Verb
(clamm)Derived terms
* American jackknife clam * Atlantic jackknife clam * bamboo clam * clam chowder * clamshell * clam up * giant clam * piss clam * razor clamSee also
* clammyEtymology 2
Verb
(clamm)- (Nares)
Etymology 3
Noun
- The clam of death.
Verb
(clamm)- (Dryden)
- A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed themselves till there was no getting out again.
Anagrams
* ----flammed
English
Verb
(head)flam
English
Etymology 1
17th century; from flim-flam,Flimflam / Claptrap], [http://www.word-detective.com The Word Detective, 2009–04–13 itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse
Noun
(en noun)- A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.
Verb
- God is not to be flammed off with lies.