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'm en · VERB · etymology 1

Contraction of am.

(clitic) Am, used especially in I'm.
- “So how'm I not good?” 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam, →ISBN, page 158:
- What'm I gon' do?
(clitic, dialectal) Various forms of be.
- “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.” 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180:
- "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil." 1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:
- You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end. 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:

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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of 'em.
alt of 'em
- 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I picked up two stones and threw ’m in the air, heard ’m drop

Contraction of madam/ma'am. Typologically compare Russian -с (-s).

Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.

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