comether

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UK/kəˈmɛðə/

noun

A seductive spell; a charm.

First used 19th c.Scrabble 15
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Meanings

nouncomether (plural comethers)

plural comethers

  1. IrelandarchaicA seductive spell; a charm.First known use 19th c.

    By cock, she was to blame. She put the comether on him, sweet and twentysix.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 183
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    How does ut come about, sorr, that whin a man has put the comether on wan woman he's sure bound to put ut on another?

    1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Courting of Dinah Shadd

    There's a gossoon in me company that did be workin' in a dispinshary that's after tellin' me that bakin' sody in hot wather wid put the comether on yer pains, me poor frind.

    1940, Sir James Elliott, The Hundred Years, Robert Hale Limited, page 125

Origin

Dialectal form of come-hither.

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