Both Uses of
teem
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God's angel to Mary quoth.†
Chpt 14 *teeming = filled (has many)
- with the glove get on your nerves then doing the loglady all day put her in a glasscase with two at a time to look at her if he knew she broke off the hand off that little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she left that I got that little Italian boy to mend so that you can't see the join for 2 shillings wouldn't even teem the potatoes for you of course shes right not to ruin her hands I noticed he was always talking to her lately at the table explaining things in the paper and she pretending to understand sly of course that comes from his side of the house he can't say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and helping her into her coat but if†
Chpt 18
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.