Meanings
- alternativecontractionAlternative form of c'mere.
“C’m’ere, cat. I’ll give you some food.” Eddie moved to a lone bag on the kitchen table and reached in, pulling out a can.
2017, Kim Savage, “Part 3: Chest”, in Beautiful Broken Girls, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 1152 more examples
But she let him have the box, and, elate with the conquest, he hurried away to catch Augusta before the last bell should ring. He imagined himself stopping before the girls’ yard and calling to Augusta: “Say, Augusta, c’m’ere; I’ve a message from your auntie.”
1906 May 5, Maude L[avinia] Radford, “Patrick on the Primrose Path: Flaherty’s Politics and Sarsfield’s Heart”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 178, number 45, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 3“Hush!” Florence warned him. “Kitty Silver’s talkin’ to somebody in there. It might be Aunt Julia! C’m’ere!” She led him to a position beneath an open window of the kitchen.
1922, Booth Tarkington, chapter 2, in Gentle Julia, Garden City, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 38
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