All 3 Uses of
teem
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.
p. 9.0teemed = was filled (with a large number of something)
- Most of the county, it seemed, was there: the hall was teeming with slicked-up country people.
p. 294.7 *teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
- Backstage, Cecil and I found the narrow hallway teeming with people: adults in homemade three-corner hats, Confederate caps, Spanish-American War hats, and World War helmets.
p. 295.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(teem) have a large number of things -- especially things that are moving
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
to pour out, In archaic literature, teem can mean to give birth to.