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Kam

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Crooked. (Erse kaam, squint-eyed.) Clean Kam, perverted into Kim Kam, means wholly awry, clean from the purpose.

“This is clean kam—merely awry.”


Shakespeare: Coriolanus, iii. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Kajak
Kaled
Kaleda (Sclavonic mythology)
Kali
Kaliyuga
Kalmar
Kalmucks
Kalpa
Kalpa-Tarou
Kalyb
Kam
Kâma
Kami
Kamsin
Kansas
Kansas
Karaites [Scripturists]
Karma
Karmathians
Karoon or Korah
Karrows