Queme

Alternative forms

• queem

From Middle English queme, from Old English cweme, Old English cwēme ("pleasant, agreeable, acceptable"), related to Old English cwemnes, Old English cwēmnes ("pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation")

Full definition of queme

Noun

1. (obsolete) Pleasure.

Related terms

• quemful
• quemly

From Middle English queme, from Old English cweme, Old English cwēme ("pleasant, agreeable, acceptable")

Adjective

1. pleasant, pleasingI'd like to querken your quiddles on the quizzities of the letter Q because they aren't queme ... — Roads to Quoz, WSJ
2. agreeable
3. acceptable

From Middle English quemen, from Old English cweman, Old English cwēman ("to gratify, please, satisfy, comply with, be obedient to, serve") Akin to Old English cuman, "to come".

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in a satisfying manner to (someone); to be pleasing to.
• c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V:My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace
  To gon aȝeyn, for naught I kan hym queme ....
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become; come to be.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To fit.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To please; satisfy.That maketh him his heir, that can him queme — Chaucer.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To suit.

Derived terms

• misqueme