lame
lame · lames
квадрат, майдан, площа
ламель
Quadrat, Feld, Platz
A stupid or undesirable personA stupid or undesirable person.
/leɪm/
» I don't want to hear your lame excuses.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 senses(slang)A stupid or undesirable person.
A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
(in the plural)A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
More definitions
- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
Examples
61 sentencesI don't want to hear your lame excuses.
Can you believe how lame this is?
That's a lame excuse.
ruЭто неудачная отмазка. — odexed
That's so lame.
This is lame.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, fFrom Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).
From Middle French lame, from Latin lāmina. Doublet of lamina.
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