| 释义 |
cram-jam, adv. Now chiefly U.S. dial.
[Emphatic combination of stems of cram v. and jam v.]
Chock- or cram- (full). So cram-jam v. trans.
1880Punch 25 Sept. 142/1 The house was cram-jammed from ceiling to floor by an audience that showed itself decidedly appreciative and strictly critical. 1903Dialect Notes II. 296 Cram jam full, crammed full. 1905East Coast Visitor 17 Aug. 7/3 I've seen these flats cram-jammed with fowl of all sorts. 1909Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 3/2 That garden was simply cram-jam full of them. 1953Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xix. 10 (Southern Appalachians) Cram-jam-full, very full. |