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cleam.

To smear, rub on, or anoint; to bedaub with an oily or sticky substance.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/kliːm/Received-Pronunciation/klim/General-American
  1. To smear, rub on, or anoint; to bedaub with an oily or sticky substance.

    dialectal · transitive
  2. To cause to stick; to glue on.

    dialectal · transitive
  3. To stick, cling to, or adhere.

    dialectal · intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English clemen, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, anoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaimijan, from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick, glue”).

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