Icelandic kemba (“to comb; card; debug”). <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">kembs</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">kembing</span>, simple past and past participle kembed...
<span class="searchmatch">kembs</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span> <span class="searchmatch">kembs</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">kembing</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span>...
IPA(key): /<span class="searchmatch">ˈkemb</span>.de/ cembde inflection of cemban: first/third-person singular preterite indicative singular preterite subjunctive...
+ -ing. IPA(key): /ˈ<span class="searchmatch">kɛmbinɡ</span>(ə)/, /ˈkɛminɡ(ə)/, /ˈkeːminɡ(ə)/ kembynge (uncountable) (rare) The combing of hair or wool. “<span class="searchmatch">kẹ̄̆mbing</span>(e, ger.”, in MED Online...
of <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span>, from Middle English kemben, from Old English cemban (“to comb”). Modern uses are back-formations from the negative unkempt. More at <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span>, comb...
From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (“to comb, <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span>”). The noun is derived from the verb. kjemme (present tense kjemmer, past tense kjemde...
Icelandic ókembdur), German ungekämmt (“unkempt”), Dutch ongekamd. More at <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span>. (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌʌnˈkɛmpt/ Rhymes: -ɛmpt Hyphenation: un‧kempt unkempt...
kempster From Middle English kembestere, kempstare, kemster, equivalent to <span class="searchmatch">kemb</span> + -ster. kembster (plural kembsters) (archaic, historical) A woman who cleans...