Citations:queem

English citations of queem

Verb: to please, to satisfy

• 1870, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Periods:

  Her attire full well it seemed, Mervelik the king she queemed.

Noun: pleasure

• 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:

  The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.

unclear sense

our entry had placed this citation under the noun definition "breeze", but The English Dialect Dictionary says it's using the adverb "queem" which means "pleasant, calm, smooth"

• 1876, John Mactaggart:

  Dream, dream, that the Ocean's queem; Dream, dream, that the moon did beam; And the morning will hear the waves roar, [...]