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English
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Noun
kame (plural kames)
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Chavacano
Pronoun
kame
- we (exclusive; we and not you)
Japanese
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kame
Lithuanian
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kame
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Verb
kame
Scots
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Etymology
Older Scots kame, came, from Middle English cambe (“comb”).
Noun
kame (plural kames)
- an act of combing
- 1994 [1920], George P. Dunbar, “A guff o' peat reek”, in Anne Forsyth, Canty and Couthie, page 43:
- She wroct fae shreek o' mornin' till the mirkest oor ye'll name,
An’ scarce hed time t’ dict her face, nor gie her heid a kaim- She worked from break of morning until the darkest hour you can name, / And scarcely had time to make up her face, or give her head a combing
- a steep hill or ridge; the crest of a hill
Verb
kame (third-person singular simple present kames, present participle kamin, simple past kamet, past participle kamet)
- to comb
- 1908, Glasgow Ballad Club, “Jenny Kilfunk”, in Ballads and Poems: Third Series, page 115:
- Wi’ her short green goon, an’ her queer red cap,
An’ her een sae skelly an’ blear ;
Wi’ her fingers sae lang, aye keepit sa thrang,
A-kaimin’ her yellow hair- With her short green gown, and her odd red cap, / And her eyes so squinty and bleary; / With her fingers so long, held so close together, / Combing her yellow hair
- to rake loose straw or hay
- to scold, drub
- gie ’im a kamin doun
- give him a dressing down
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