reem
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Biblical Hebrew רְאֵם (r'em).
Noun edit
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).
Translations edit
horned creature
Etymology 2 edit
Compare ream (“to make a hole in”).
Verb edit
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 3 edit
Of unclear origins, popularised by Joey Essex. Possibly derived from cream or ream.[1]
Adjective edit
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”, in 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.
References edit
- ^ 2014, November 22, Dot Wordsworth, Does Joey Essex know what ‘reem’ actually means?, The Spectator
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
reem
- Alternative form of reme (“ream”)
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English reme (“cream”), from Old English rēam, from Proto-West Germanic *raum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reem
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 64