Definition of "clem"

clem¹

/klɛm/

verb
third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed
1. (UK, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
  Quotations
  " […] Here he's back home again, and without work, and without a penny, and thou knows t' little one and I were pretty well clemmed to death when thou got us a bit o' bread and meat last night. We were that!"
  1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110

clem²

/klɛm/

noun
plural clems
1. (Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.

clem³

/klɛm/

verb
third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed
1. Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”)