lyme

See also: Lyme and LYME

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

lyme (third-person singular simple present lymes, present participle lyming, simple past and past participle lymed)

1. (Jamaica, slang) to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular)
   • 2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop, page 19:

     But everyday,^[sic] while all of this was going on, there'd be some lyming (hanging out)—and this is how the spirit of the music was absorbed, how apprentices both learned and caught on.

   • 2008, Thomas Glave, The Torturer's Wife, page 229:

     […] in Carlton's living room one Saturday evening, spending a few hours lyming over rum and, of all things, codfish dumplings, another thing Carlton loved, even in the evening […]

   • 2008 December 21, “Glitz, glamour and party!”, in Jamaica Gleaner‎^[1]:

     Guests were directed to the cocktail area where they lymed and enjoyed finger food with a choice of sorrel or fruit punch.

   • 2018 June 17, “Auto Bonding - Fathers Use Automotives To Build Relationships With Their Children”, in Jamaica Gleaner‎^[2]:

     Barnes, who organised the day's activities which involved several fathers and their children lyming at DaCosta Farms and Adventures, was very adamant that it is important for fathers to bond with their kids while they are still young.

See also

• lyme grass

Anagrams

• Emly, elmy, myel-, yelm, ylem

Jamaican Creole

Noun

lyme (plural lyme dem, quantified lyme)

1. Alternative spelling of lime.

Verb

lyme

1. Alternative spelling of lime.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From limu, plural of Old English lim, from Proto-West Germanic *limu.

Alternative forms

• leme, lim, lime, lym
• limæ, leome (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlim(ə)/, /ˈleːm(ə)/

Noun

lyme (plural lymes)

1. organ, body part
2. limb, extremity of the body
3. (figurative) An extremity, branch, or extension.
4. (Christianity) A good Christian.
5. A devoted member of any other cause.

Descendants

• English: limb
• Scots: limb, lim
• ⇒ Yola: lemethès

References

• “lim, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

Etymology 2

Noun

lyme

1. Alternative form of leme

Etymology 3

Noun

lyme

1. Alternative form of lym (“quicklime”)