the worthless word for the day is: clemmed

[fr. ME forclemmed, pinched with hunger] /klem'd/
UK dial. hungry; famished

"'All this hanging around's fair clemmed me.'"
- Reginald Hill, Death Comes for the Fat Man (2007)

one of my readers was paying attention and tried making a connection to Yiddish verklempt/ferklempt. I did find one source which gave klempt as a variant spelling, but then said it was in Wigan use - this is a Celtic place-name, and I can't in good conscience make any connection between Celtic and Yiddish...