Talk:ram

Ram goat

An anonymous editor added the billy goat sense a year ago. I've removed it because I can find no evidence of this usage in standard English (only in confused translations). The OED does not record the usage. Dbfirs 07:47, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Possible missing senses

Chambers 1908 has ram, adjective, "strong-scented" and "(used as a prefix) very", from which they derived ram-cat, a tomcat. Obsolete, UK, regional. Equinox ◑ 21:54, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

If it's Northern English dialect "rancid, offensive in smell" (cf Scots ram (“a rank odour”)) then perhaps it's from the Norse ramr (“strong, rank, bitter”). Leasnam (talk) 22:07, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

transitive verb: present something very forcefully

transitive verb to present something forcefully in order to impress and convince people --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:02, 15 October 2020 (UTC)