Dame vs Eame - What's the difference?
dame | eame |
(British) The .
(dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
* 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(archaic) , woman.
(label) (A form of) (an uncle).
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book IV, xlix:
*:Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame .
:(Spenser)
(Webster 1913)
As a verb dame
is .As a noun eame is
(label) (a form of) (an uncle).dame
English
Noun
(en noun)- Dame Edith Sitwell
- There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !