comether
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kəmĕʹdhər, IPA(key): /kəˈmɛðə/
Noun edit
comether (plural comethers)
- (dialect) Alternative form of come-hither
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Courting of Dinah Shadd:
- 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?
- 1940, Sir James Elliott, The Hundred Years[1], Robert Hale Limited, page 125:
- 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.