eme (plural emes)

1. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) An uncle.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:10.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter quintum], in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     Soo this yonge syre Trystram rode vnto his eme kynge Marke of Cornewayle / ¶ And whanne he came there / he herd say that ther wold no knyghte fyghte with syre Marhaus / Thenne yede sir Tristram vnto his eme and sayd / syre yf ye wylle gyue me thordre of knyghthode / I wille doo bataille with syr Marhaus

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto X:

     Whilst they were young, Cassibalane their Eme / Was by the people chosen in their sted {{...}

2. (Scotland) Friend.

• eam

eme (not comparable)

1. (telecommunication) Initialism of Earth-Moon-Earth

• IPA: /ˈeɪmeɪ/, /ˈɛmeɪ/

1. (US, slang) The Mexican Mafia.