a. Obs. exc. dial. [app. extended from CAM a.; cf. wicked.]

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  † 1.  = CAMOIS; having a cam or camois nose. Obs.

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c. 1350[?].  Sat. Blacksmiths, in Rel. Ant., I. 240. The cammede kongons cryen after col! col!

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 14. Rounde was hese face and kammede was hese nose.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 59. Cammyd, or schort nosyd, simus.

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  2.  Crooked, perverse. dial.

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c. 1746.  J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), Tummus & M., Wks. (1862), 61. Its not to tell heaw camm’d things con happ’n!

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1875.  E. Waugh, Old Cronies, vi. 60 (in Lanc. Gloss.). Thou’rt gettin’ camm’d as a crushed whisket.

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  Hence Cammedness.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 59. Chammydnesse [1499 cammednesse], simitas.

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