cammed, a. Obs. exc. dial.
(kæmd)
[app. extended from cam a.; cf. wicked.]
† 1. = camois; having a cam or camois nose. Obs.
| ? c 1350 Sat. Blacksmiths in Rel. Ant. I. 240 The cammede kongons cryen after col! col! c 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 14 Rounde was hese face and kammede was hese nose. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 59 Cammyd, or schort nosyd, simus. |
2. Crooked, perverse. dial.
| c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Tummus & M. Wks. (1862) 61 Its not to tell heaw camm'd things con happ'n! 1875 E. Waugh Old Cronies vi. 60 (in Lanc. Gloss.) Thou'rt gettin' camm'd as a crushed whisket. |
Hence ˈcammedness.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 59 Chammydnesse [1499 cammednesse], simitas. |