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crammed, ppl. a.|kræmd|
[f. cram v.]
1. Stuffed full beyond the natural capacity; spec. fattened for the table.
1587Gascoigne Flowers Wks. 73 The crammed fowle comes quickly to his death. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xxii. 241 As fat as cram'd Capons. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake I. xvi. 161 A Couple of crammed Fowls, with Oyster Sauce. 1808J. Barlow Columb. vii. 595 No cramm'd cartouch their belted back attires.
2. colloq. Of a lesson, etc.: ‘Got up’ hastily for the occasion. Of a student: Prepared for an examination by ‘cramming’.
1837Beaconsfield Corr. w. Sister 21 Nov., L— made a crammed speech like a schoolboy. 1890Daily News 14 Aug. 4/8 The crammer has given his pupils ‘tips’ out of Goethe [etc.] which the crammed reproduce more or less inaccurately and unintelligently.
Hence ˈcrammedness, state of being crammed.
1802W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 410 There is not that crammedness of population. |