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rim¹

  • /ɹɪm/ Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • [ˈɹʷɪm] Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • /ɹəm/ New Zealand
  • [ˈɹʷəm] New Zealand
  • /ɾɪm/ Scotland, Wales

Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Old English rima

Middle English rim

English rim

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

noun rims

  1. An edge around something, especially when circular. That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.
  2. A wheelrim. About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
  3. A semicircular copydesk. COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.
  4. The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.

verb rims · rimming · rimmed

  1. transitive To form a rim on.
  2. transitive To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit. Palm trees rim the beach.
  3. intransitive, transitive To roll around a rim. Near-synonym: lip out
  4. To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.

rim²

  • /ɹɪm/ Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • [ˈɹʷɪm] Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • /ɹəm/ New Zealand
  • [ˈɹʷəm] New Zealand
  • /ɾɪm/ Scotland, Wales

Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

From a variation of ream.

verb rims · rimming · rimmed

  1. slang, vulgar To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus. I had learned to lick their sweaty balls and would know what they wanted if they pulled their pants down and pushed my face in their ass for a rimming out.

rim³

  • /ɹɪm/ Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • [ˈɹʷɪm] Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • /ɹəm/ New Zealand
  • [ˈɹʷəm] New Zealand
  • /ɾɪm/ Scotland, Wales

Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

noun rims

  1. UK, dialectal A membrane.
  2. UK, dialectal, obsolete The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly. Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.

rim⁴

  • /ɹɪm/ Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • [ˈɹʷɪm] Australia, Canada, US, UK
  • /ɹəm/ New Zealand
  • [ˈɹʷəm] New Zealand
  • /ɾɪm/ Scotland, Wales

Rhymes with -ɪm

Where it comes from

Unknown.

noun rims

  1. UK, dialectal A step of a ladder; a rung.

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