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Kramer
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krämer Krämer
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɹeɪmɚ/ US
en En-us-Kramer.ogg GA
en eɪmə(ɹ) 2
Etymology 1
Borrowed from en nl Kramer and en de Krämer.
Proper noun
~
en countable en.
en uncountable A placename, from the surname:
en ucomm co/San Bernardino County s/California c/US.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Liberty co/Warren County s/Indiana c/US.
en minor city co/Bottineau County s/North Dakota c/US.
Derived terms
en Kramer Junction
Descendants
mul Krameria 1
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Kramer is the 526th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 63,936 individuals. Kramer is most common among White (95.4%) individuals.
Etymology 2
In reference to the televion sitcom Seinfeld, where the character Cosmo Kramer often suddenly enters unannounced.
Verb
en intransitive colloquial To suddenly enter or go through somewhere unexpectedly and suddenly.
en barge in
en alt.support.depression.recovery.sanctuary I fell at work yesterday. A floor had just been mopped and there was no sign up about the floor being wet. I "Kramered" through, and slipped and wrenched my left knee. Re: Kween Klutz 2006-06-12 https://groups.google.com/g/alt.support.depression.recovery.sanctuary/c/C0oteaMmaVc/m/zTWZfjx2p9kJ Ricki ricki@asarian-host.net
en 2022-06-01 prettywannapancake breakingmom v2g59e iatldfk Bout to Throat Punch My Husband I showed him how to open doors by fully turning the handle before you start to push it open instead of just Kramering through like usual, and he took it to heart! https://web.archive.org/web/20220929141522/https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/v2g59e/bout_to_throat_punch_my_husband/iatldfk/ 29 September 2022
en 2022-09-26 NotTheMarmot TooAfraidToAsk xopokt ipzy71l Why is "not all men are rapists" considered a bad/offensive thing to say? When a man comes Kramering into a thread to say "But not me!" that's annoying, because the topic was on rape in general, and the guy came in there and made it about him. https://web.archive.org/web/20220926195650/https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/xopokt/why_is_not_all_men_are_rapists_considered_a/ipzy71l/ 26 September 2022
Further reading
Anagrams
en aekmrr marker re-mark remark
en surnames from Dutch surnames from German terms derived from Seinfeld
Danish
Proper noun
da Dutch,German
Dutch
Etymology
From nl kraam trading post.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈkraː.mər/
nl Kra mer
nl aːmər
Proper noun
nl proper noun
nl occupations
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Kramer + 1
Pronunciation
Kreymer Kra.mer
Proper noun
Kreymer
tl English < German,Dutch