kram

From Old Norse krama (“to press, squeeze”), from kremja (“to crush”).

kram n (singular definite krammet, plural indefinite kram)

1. hug

From Old Norse kram, from Middle Low German kräm (“fine cloth; also used for merchant tents, thus later a synonym for merchandise”), probably ultimately of Slavic origin; see German Kram.

kram n (singular definite krammet, not used in plural form)

1. stuff, things, goods
   • 2017, Hans Lyngby Jepsen, Træerne, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     For mange mennesker, for mange fødder, for meget støv og for meget billigt kram.

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   • 1929, J. L. Bjørner, Robert Storm Petersen, Frihandelens fane: et økonomiskpolitisk nutidsbillede paa en historisk baggrund:

     Mange bar jo ikke Raad til andet. En Toldlov kan forhindre Importen af billigt Kram, men den kan ikke forhindre, at der opstaar en indenlandsk Fabrikation baseret paa Kram, paa slet, men dyrt Kram, og som kun vil lokke Arbejde og Kapital ...

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   • 1976, Svend Åge Madsen, Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden: roman:

     Der er utallige diske med farvestrålende varer, boder med billigt kram, lokkende skilte, pyramider af dåser, kurve med brød, bokse med frosset kød, alt i ét virvar, der skal gøre kunden så forvirret at hun køber mere end hun har brug for og råd til ...

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• (positive): vare
• (negative): bras, ragelse, møg

kram

1. imperative of kramme

• “kram” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch cramme, from Middle Dutch crimmen (“to catch, grab (with claws)”), from Proto-West Germanic *krimman.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /krɑm/

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• Hyphenation: kram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

kram f (plural krammen, diminutive krammetje n)

1. staple (U-shaped metal fastener to bind materials together, for example to attach fence wire to posts)
2. (Medicine) surgical staple

   Synonym: hechtkram

• (staple): nietje (to bind sheets of paper together)

• krammen (“to attach or seal with staples”)

• → Papiamentu: kramchi, kranchi, kramtsje (from the diminutive)

• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “KRAM”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

• Mark

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kram

1. singular imperative of kramen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of kramen

kram (plural kram-kram)

1. (medicine, colloquial) alternative form of keram (“cramp”)

From Old Norse krammr.

• IPA^(key): /krɑm/

kram (neuter singular kramt, definite singular and plural kramme, comparative krammere, indefinite superlative krammest, definite superlative krammeste)

1. having a temperature near the melting point, wet, sticky (of snow)

   Det er lettere å lage snøballer når snøen er kram.

   Making snowballs is easier when the snow is sticky.

• “kram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse krammr.

kram (neuter singular kramt, definite singular and plural kramme, comparative krammare, indefinite superlative krammast, definite superlative krammaste)

1. having a temperature near the melting point, wet, sticky (of snow)

• “kram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Lexin ordbøker på nett [1]

• krom (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland)

Borrowed from Middle High German krām, from Old High German kram, itself probably borrowed from Slavic. See modern German Kram.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkram/

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: kram

kram m inan (diminutive kramik)

1. (dated) market stall, market stand

   Synonym: stragan

• kram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /kram/

kram

1. axe

• IPA^(key): /krɑːm/

From Old Swedish kram, from Old Norse kram, from Middle Low German kräm (“fine cloth; also used for merchant tents, thus later a synonym for merchandise”), probably ultimately of Slavic origin; see German Kram. Related to Danish kram, Icelandic kram.

kram n

1. A merchandise, commodities, small and cheap products sold to consumers; trash (useless merchandise).
   • 1831, Fredrik Cederborgh, Berättelse om Den, först rike och ansedde, sedermera fattige och föraktade John Hall‎^[2], page 5:

     För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg.

     In order to be able to access such, indeed quite proper trifle but not paying much interest, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked coffer, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from his birthplace, Gothenburg.

• krimskrams
• kräma

From the verb krama (“to squeeze, to hug”).

kram

1. (of snow) wet, cloggy; that easily forms snowballs

• kramsnö

kram c or n

1. a hug, an embrace

• kjam (slang)
• kramis (informal, childish)
• omfamning

• kramis
• kramsjuk
• styrkekram

• kram in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kram in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kram in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• karm, mark