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FICTIONARY BALLOT FOR CLEM AT LAST   AND COOF, PERHAPS
	Vote 2 and 1 points for Clem.  Coof is optional, and a bonus word/tiebreaker, but you can vote for it if you want or award awards
1)	Clem, n. (Victorian racing slang)—a drugged horse.  Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations.  A novel of the rich and poor in England.
2)	Clem, adj—quite satisfactory; in good order (slang, early 20th C. northeastern US, prob. from “clement”.)  “You think everything’s clem?  You think you fixed it all up?” Ellis spit.  “You damn coof, it’s all gone to hell thanks to you.”  Coby’s Army, Richard T. Whistler, 1927
3)	Clem, n.  An edible marine bivalve mollusk native to the Donegal, Derry, and Antrim coasts of Northern Ireland.  “My lady Rackrent, I’m sure, has dainties enough,” says Lucy.  “Dem, it’s hems and clems she’s asked for partikeler,” continued old Patrick,  “and it’s here I’ve brought th’ clems in th’ prem, along o’ soom crocks o’ me Molly’s jem, all as fine as ye’re fency rick o’ lem.  So beggin’ ye’re pahhdin mem.”  And thus did this worthy of Crookaghnawaturgh deposit his treasures on the kitchen floor.  Castle Rackrent:  An Hibernian Tale Taken From Facts, And From The Manners Of The Irish Squires, Before The Year 1782—Maria Edgeworth, 1800.
4)	Clem, v. To starve, to die slowly of starvation.  “It’s no use, Higgins.  Hoo cannot live long a’ this’n.  Hoo’s just sinking away—not for want o’ meat hersel’—but because hoo cannot stand th’ sight o’ the little ones clemming.  Ay, clemming!  Five shilling a week may do well enough for thee, wi’ but two mouths to fill, and one on ‘em a wench who can welly earn her own meat.  But it’s clemming to us…be domned to th’ whole cruel world o’ yo’; that could na leave me th’ best wife that ever bore childer to a man!”  North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
5)	Coof , n.  [Nantucket slang]  To locals, a person not born on Nantucket.  Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick.
6)	Clem, n, a dolt.  Coof, n, a dolt.  [Clem and Coof are characters in an Irish Comic strip by Seamus Barclay, 1950’s.]  Often used around Manchester, England, the same way “Mac” is used to mean an ordinary, but slightly inferior, Joe.


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