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Lam vs Kam - What's the difference?

lam | kam |

As a noun lam

is a flap (on the sides of a truck's bed).

As a proper noun kam is

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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

    * * ----

    kam

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) crooked, awry
  • * 160? , Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • This is clean kam .
    (Webster 1913) ----