Figuratively, imperfect lacking finish or completeness defective in quality or quantity halting insufficient hobbling: as, lame verse lame rimes a lame excuse.Inefficient from injury or defect unsound or impaired in strength crippled: as, a lame leg or arm.Crippled or disabled by injury to or defect of a limb or limbs specifically, walking with difficulty halting limping: as, a lame man or horse.To make lame cripple or disable render imperfect or unsound: as, to lame an antagonist to lame an arm or a leg.transitive verb To cause to become lame cripple.adjective Slang Socially inappropriate foolish.adjective Informal Dull or unsatisfactory.adjective Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible.noun A thin metal plate, especially one of the overlapping steel plates in medieval armor.absolute definite natural masculine singular of lam.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.third-person singular present indicative.Lame f ( oblique plural lames, nominative singular lame, nominative plural lames) Lame m ( definite singular lameen, indefinite plural lamear, definite plural lameane) ( non-standard since 2012) plural of lam.( non-standard since 2012) definite singular of lam.(Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?) Lame ( strong nominative masculine singular lamer, not comparable) Compare Romansch loma, lama, French lame, Italian and Venetian lama.
( prison slang ) A stupid or undesirable person.Finnish: lamauttaa (fi) ( temporarily ) rampauttaa (fi) ( indefinitely ).Venetian: cionpo, soto (vec), zhot, çoto.Spanish: cojo (es), rengo (es) ( Argentina, Uruguay ).Portuguese: manco (pt), perneta (pt), coxo (pt) ( Brasil ), capenga (pt) ( Brasil ).Polish: kulawy (pl) m, kulejący m, chromy (pl) m ( obsolete ).Maori: tahakopa, hauā, waehauā, tūparaka.French: boiteux (fr) m, boiteuse (fr) f.Dutch: lam (nl), verlamd (nl), kreupel (nl), mank (nl).