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Lam vs Eam - What's the difference?

lam | eam |

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

(-)
  • Used in the expression on the lam to mean that a person is fleeing law enforcement, possibly in hiding.

    • Verb

  • To beat or thrash

    • Derived terms

    * lambaste

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, .

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    eam

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l) (Scottish)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
  • *2011 , Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622 :
    • 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.

    Related terms

    *

    Anagrams

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