Meaning

2 senses

  1. (UK, slang)To eat.

  2. (especially)To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.

Examples

15 sentences

  1. How are sweet potatoes and yams different?

    deWorin unterscheiden sich Süßkartoffeln und Yamswurzeln? — Yorwba

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  2. Which are sweeter, yams or sweet potatoes?

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  3. What are some of the differences between sweet potatoes and yams?

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  4. It's a yam.

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  5. They're looking for yams in the jungle.

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Origin

Ultimately from Fula nyaamude (“to eat”) or a cognate Fula-Wolof term. Apparently a varia

Ultimately from Fula nyaamude (“to eat”) or a cognate Fula-Wolof term.

Apparently a variation of jam (“dunk”, verb).

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Forms

yams, yamming, yammed, yammed
Base formyam · to yam
3rd person singularyams
Present participleyamming
Past simpleyammed
Past participleyammed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyyam
he, she, ityams

Past simpleLesson

all personsyammed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave yammed
he, she, ithas yammed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill yam

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtom yam

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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