queme

From Middle English quemen (“to please”), from Old English cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare cwēme (“pleasant, agreeable, acceptable”) and cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“to come”), English come. Compare also quim.

queme (third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed)

1. (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.
   • 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:

     Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.

   • 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:

     On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.

   • 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:

     Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);

queme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of quemar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of quemar

Inherited from Old English ġecwēme, from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmī, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaz.

• queeme, quem, qwem, qweme, wheme
• cweme (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweːm(ə)/

queme (plural and weak singular quemere, comparative quemest) (Early Middle English or Northern and Northwest Midland)

1. satisfying, satisfactory, agreeable:
   1. suitable, appropriate
   2. generous, kind, friendly
   3. attractive, beautiful, pleasant-looking
2. (rare) deft, capable, skilled

• quemen

• English: wheem (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: queme
  • Scots: queem, quim

• “quẹ̄m(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

queme (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Northern and Northwest Midland) satisfaction, liking, agreeability

• >? English: quim

• “quẹ̄m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

queme

1. alternative form of quemen

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈkwɛmə/

quëme

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of quëmen

quëme

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of quëman

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeme/ [ˈke.me]
• Rhymes: -eme
• Syllabification: que‧me

Deverbal from quemar.

queme m (plural quemes)

1. (psychology, ergonomics) burnout

queme

1. inflection of quemar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative