Meanings
- CaribbeanuncountableNoise and confusion.
Somewhere in the comess, Beti had lost her headpiece.
2012, Connie Wilkins, Steve Berman, Heiresses of Russ 2012, →ISBN, page 2602 more examples
As Jasmine told me emphatically, "facts" are knowledge -- of correct practices and their meanings -- and provide the antidote to the comess of mixed ways of knowing and of behaving.
2004, Aisha Khan, Callaloo Nation, →ISBN, page 211The seer man revealed that the "comess" (conflict, trouble, confusion) this man was experiencing was linked to cuckoldry (perhaps his own; this part of the story was left vague), explaining that the neighbors "had worked obeah” on him and his family, "put[tin] graveyard dirt and many other things in a buried heap" under the outside stairs.
2014, J.W. Pulis, Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity, →ISBN, page 268
Origin
- Frenchcommerce
- Antillean Creolekomès
- Englishcomess
From Antillean Creole komès, from French commerce. Doublet of commerce.
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