queme
See also: quemé
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Etymology edit
From Middle English quemen (“to please”), from Old English cweman, cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare cweme, cwēme (“pleasant, agreeable, acceptable”) and cwemnes, cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“come”), English come. Compare also quim.
Verb edit
queme (third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed)
- (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.
- 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:
- Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.
- 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:
- On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.
- 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:
- Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
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Noun edit
queme m (plural quemes)
- (psychology, ergonomics) burnout
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queme
- inflection of quemar: