a. Obs. exc. dial. [app. extended from CAM a.; cf. wicked.]
† 1. = CAMOIS; having a cam or camois nose. Obs.
c. 1350[?]. Sat. Blacksmiths, in Rel. Ant., I. 240. The cammede kongons cryen after col! col!
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeves T., 14. Rounde was hese face and kammede was hese nose.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 59. Cammyd, or schort nosyd, simus.
2. Crooked, perverse. dial.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), Tummus & M., Wks. (1862), 61. Its not to tell heaw cammd things con happn!
1875. E. Waugh, Old Cronies, vi. 60 (in Lanc. Gloss.). Thourt gettin cammd as a crushed whisket.
Hence Cammedness.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 59. Chammydnesse [1499 cammednesse], simitas.