crame

Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06: 41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent ......

cramer - French Word-A-Day 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06:41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent......

cramer - French Word-A-Day 2009

We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers .... need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat.

cramer - French Word-A-Day 2009

We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers....need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat.

cramer - French Word-A-Day 2009

(Here there was a slight o — o — o!) “And with regard to the milk and crame, it may be remarked that the cows are likewise in pawn, and not a single drop can be had for money or love: but we can beat up eggs, you know, in the tay, which will be just as good.”

Burlesques 2006

The word, which also occurs in German as Krämer, doesn't show up in English, but it does in Scots as cramer 'one who sells goods at a stall or booth; also a pedlar or hawker'; Scots also has the base noun crame 'booth or stall where goods are sold in a market or fair.'

languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH. 2005

Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

"Sure it's as aisy as lapping crame," the girl says with a little affected brogue and a smile that shows all her dimples.

Only an Irish Girl

If I was housekeeper here, an 'cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an 'sparrowgrass, an' chicken, _an'_ ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin 'cornbeef an' cabbage.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

And he pours the wather out of the bucket as gentle as if it was crame out of a jug.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907