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comether

UK/kəˈmɛðə/

comether noun: a seductive spell; a charm.

Noun

comether (plural comethers)

  1. (Ireland, archaic) A seductive spell; a charm.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of comether

pluralcomethers

Origin of comether

Dialectal form of come-hither.

Words formed from comether

  • put the comether on

Questions about comether

What does comether mean?
Comether means a seductive spell; a charm.
What part of speech is comether?
Comether is a noun.
How do you pronounce comether?
Comether is pronounced /kəˈmɛðə/ (UK).
What is the plural of comether?
The plural of comether is comethers.

Words near comether in the dictionary

  1. cometary
  2. cometesimal
  3. cometesimals
  4. cometh
  5. cometh from
  6. comether
  7. comethers
  8. cometic
  9. cometical
  10. cometless
  11. cometlike

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