Adjective: clam
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | clammer |
| Superlative | clammest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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Ice is said to be clam, when beginning to melt with the sun or otherwise, and not easy to be slid upon. [1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language:]
Adjectives inflected like clam
dim,
mim,
bum,
rum,
frum,
grum,
grim,
glam,
glum,
clam,
trim,
prim,
slim,
Etymology
From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”). See: German Adjectives '
klamm'.