teem

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English

Etymology 1

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From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Old English tēman, whence also team.

Pronunciation

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
    • 1685, Matthew Prior, “A Satyr on the modern Translators”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 20:
      But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain,
      Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;
    • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
    Fish teem in this pond.
    • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
      Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.
  3. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      If she must teem, / Create her child of spleen.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *tōmijaną (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

  1. (archaic) To empty.
    • 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham
      [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
    • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, “:Template:source”, in Sons_and_Lovers:
      “Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.
      “Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you teem it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
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Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *teman, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *temaną (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of G. Gifford to this entry?)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

teem

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of temen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of temen

Middle English

Noun

teem

  1. Alternative form of teme (“folk”)
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