Lam vs Eam - What's the difference?
lam | eam |
Used in the expression on the lam to mean that a person is fleeing law enforcement, possibly in hiding.
To beat or thrash
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
*2011 , Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622 :
As nouns the difference between lam and eam
is that lam is a flap (on the sides of a truck's bed) while eam is (dialectal|or|obsolete) uncle.lam
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lemja.Noun
(-)Verb
Derived terms
* lambasteEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* * ----eam
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scottish)Noun
(en noun)- James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam , Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.