all-a-mort

English

Etymology

Possibly from French à la mort (“to death", "in abundance”)

Adjective

all-a-mort

1. Sad; at death's door.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

     How fares my Kate? What, sweet one, all-a-mort?

2. (idiomatic) (obsolete, slang) Struck dumb, confounded. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)

See also

• mort