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kam.

Crooked, awry.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Crooked, awry.

    not-comparable · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.

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