different between craze vs crame

English

Alternative forms

• crase, craise, craize (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.

Cognate with Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Noun

craze (plural crazes)

1. (archaic) craziness; insanity.
2. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
   • 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts

     Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.

4. (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

Derived terms

• becraze
• crazy

Translations

Verb

craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)

1. (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
4. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Rezac

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Scots crame, craim, from Middle Dutch kraeme or Middle Low German krame; both from Old High German kr?m (“merchant tent; tent cloth”), probably ultimately borrowed from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic gram? (gram?, “pub, inn”) or ?r?m? (?r?m?, “tent”).

Compare West Frisian kream, Dutch kraam, German Low German Kraam, German Kram, Swedish kram, Icelandic kram.

Noun

crame (plural crames)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall
2. (chiefly Scotland) A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit

References

Etymology 2

Variant of cram.

Verb

crame

1. Archaic spelling of cram.

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, cream, crema, macer, recam

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: crament, crames

Verb

crame

1. first-person singular present indicative of cramer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cramer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
5. second-person singular imperative of cramer