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- adjective dialect Of a person, cold (in temperature);
shrivelled with cold.
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Examples
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Who, half shrammed to death, stood and cried on a chair
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And beer -- I knows I drinks beer, and more as I ought, but what's a chap to do when he's a'most shrammed wi 'cold, and nar a bit o' nothin 'in the pot but an old yeller swede as hard as wood?
The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867
super-rb commented on the word shrammed
shrammed- starved with cold
October 18, 2008
ian156 commented on the word shrammed
Shrammed as in frozen to the bone, is still used round the Bristol (UK) area, along with other arcane "Wurzelisms".
March 31, 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word shrammed
(adjective) - (1) Benumbed, or shrunk up with cold.
--W.H. Long's Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, 1886
(2) Cummer'd, hands are said to be so when benumbed with cold.
--John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
January 14, 2018