reem
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Biblical Hebrew רְאֵם (r'em).
NounEdit
reem (plural reems)
- A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare unicorn).
TranslationsEdit
horned creature
Etymology 2Edit
Compare ream (“to make a hole in”).
VerbEdit
reem (third-person singular simple present reems, present participle reeming, simple past and past participle reemed)
- (transitive, nautical) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
Etymology 3Edit
Of unclear origins, popularised by Joey Essex. Possibly derived from cream or ream.[1]
AdjectiveEdit
reem (comparative reemer or more reem, superlative reemest or most reem)
- (UK, chiefly Essex, slang) cool, excellent; desirable; sexy.
- 2011 June 13, Julie McCaffrey, "Forget a suntan, fake it, safely bake or soothe it", The Mirror:
- The cast of The Only Way Is Essex have tried every fake tan in the universe and insist this is best before a reem night out.
- 2012, Becci Fox, Confessions of an Essex Girl: A Smart, Sexy and Scandalously Funny Expose, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
- Imagine a totally reem Hogwarts where Harry Potter looks like he should be in a Wham! video while Hermione's always on her pink BlackBerry and trying to catch Ron's attention by rolling up her skirt higher and higher.
- 2014, Joey Essex, Being Reem, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- Room service: The reemest way to get food! […] The party royal is the most reem though because he goes to Vegas.
- 2011 June 13, Julie McCaffrey, "Forget a suntan, fake it, safely bake or soothe it", The Mirror:
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 2014, November 22, Dot Wordsworth, Does Joey Essex know what ‘reem’ actually means?, The Spectator
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
reem
- Alternative form of reme (“ream”)
YolaEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English reme (“cream”), from Old English rēam, from Proto-West Germanic *raum.
NounEdit
reem
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 64