crammedadj.
/kramd/ 1. Stuffed full beyond the natural capacity; spec. fattened for the table.
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1587 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. 73 The crammed fowle comes quickly to his death.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xxii. 241 As fat as cram'd Capons.
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) I. xvi. 161 A Couple of crammed Fowls, with Oyster Sauce.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 272 No cramm'd cartouch their belted back attires.
2. colloquial. Of a lesson, etc.: ‘Got up’ hastily for the occasion. Of a student: Prepared for an examination by ‘cramming’.
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1837 Ld. Beaconsfield Corr. with Sister 21 Nov. L— made a crammed speech like a schoolboy.
1890 Daily 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.
Derivatives
ˈcrammedness n. state of being crammed.
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1802 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 410 There is not that crammedness of population.
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