kempt
pronunciation
How to pronounce kempt in British English:
UK [kempt]
How to pronounce kempt in American English:
US [kempt]
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- Adjective:
- (used of hair) neat and tidy
Word Origin
- kempt (adj.)
- "well-combed, neat," late 14c., from past tense of dialectal kemb, from Old English cemdan (see unkempt). A rare word after c. 1500; any modern use probably is a whimsical back-formation from unkempt.
Example
- 1. There was in the english infantry , particularly in kempt 's brigade , a great many raw recruits .