Brewer's: Kam

Crooked. (Erse kaam, squmteyed.) Clean Kam, perverted into Kim Kam, means wholly awry, clean from the purpose.

“This is clean kam—merely awry.”

Shakespeare: Coriolanus, iii. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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