comf'table

English

Adjective

comf'table (comparative comf'tabler, superlative comf'tablest)

1. (archaic) Pronunciation spelling of comfortable.
   • 1907, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, page 544:

     And, first you know, queer shadows steal / From out the corners, so / Right where I hung my clothes I ’m sure / There ’s Something moves, and oh, / I feel a crawly, creepy chill / ’Way from my head to feet, / And little girls feel comf’tabler / To hid beneath the sheet!

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 283:

     Here, come on inside here, where we can be comf’table.

   • 1943, John Wallace, from conversations with Zackary Adams, Village Down East: Sketches of Village Life on the Northeast Coast of New England, Before “Gas-Buggies” Came, page 33:

     Guaranteed to be the comf’tablest, most anitomical privy seat in Jefferson County!