Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Pleasure.
- adj. pleasant, pleasing
- adj. agreeable
- adj. acceptable
- v. intransitive, obsolete To behave in a satisfying manner to (someone); to be pleasing to.
- v. intransitive, obsolete To become; come to be.
- v. transitive, obsolete To fit.
- v. transitive, obsolete To please; satisfy.
- v. transitive, obsolete To suit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To please.
Etymologies
- From Middle English queme, from Old English cweme, Old English cwēme ("pleasant, agreeable, acceptable") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'd like to querken your quiddles on the quizzities of the letter Q because they aren't queme and leave me quaddling and full of querimony.”
“Littlegame rumilie from Liffalidebankum, (Toobli-queme!) but a big corner fill you do in this unadulterated seat of our affections.”
“Ni tanto que queme al santo; ni tan poco que no lo alumbre.”
“No queme los sacos de pesticidas para combustible.”
“Yo quise quemar este libro en presencia de su dueno, y esperandole un dia que me habia de venir a ver, supe que dos dias antes se habia ido a Avila, huyendo de la enfermedad de pintas que andaba entonces en Salamanca; y asi le queme aquella noche en mi celda en una chimenea que hay en ella.”
“That maketh his heires them that him queme, please him.”
“Y decidí que lo mejor sería poner música para que nuestra audiencia se aleje un poco de la comida y queme calorías.”
“Para que no me queme en las llamas, defiéndeme tú, Virgen santa, en el día del juicio.”
“Reside en Villa reconciliación en la ciudad de Managua, sus hijos son mayores de edad, su negocio se ha incrementado con los fondos de crédito que Afodenic ha otorgado este es su séptimo crédito el cual va comprar materiales para reparar el sistema eléctrico de sus casa ya que le esta dando problema y quiere evitar que su casa se le queme.”
“Here's a quorum of such quatches ripe for revival, ready for your quaintance: quaddle (grumble), quizzity (oddity), querken (stifle), quiddle (dawdle), querimony (complaint), queme (pleasant), quetch (go), queeve (twist in a road).”
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learning
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Quiddler Ringers
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"Q" words
words that inquire into the nature of things
cheese, who, whose, whom, what, why, which, when, whence, whither, where, whether and 56 more...
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Miscellany, pt. q
quedeship, quede, qualia, quiddity, quinquefarious, queme, quadrijugous, querulous, quaquaversal, quadrennium, quinzaine, qallunaaq
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AnWulf Also spelled as queem. Oct 9, 2011
fbharjo queme a pleasing word Dec 28, 2006