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come-ˈup(p)ance, comeuppance orig. English and U.S. dial., now gen. in the U.S., less common elsewhere.
Also (dial.) come-uppings.
[come v. 74.]
Enough to serve one (by way of retaliation or check); one's deserts.
1859Harper's Mag. Jan. 277/1 Dennis once got his ‘come-up-ance’. 1880M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Gloss., Come-upping, a flogging. ‘I'll gi' 'ee a sound come-upping.’ 1884Howells Silas Lapham viii. 366 Rogers is a rascal... But I guess he'll find he's got his come-uppance. 1897E. Higginson Tales Puget Sound 155, I can give him his come-up-'ans if he goes to foolin' around. 1897Howells Landlord Lion's Head xxi. 153 Well, I did get my come-uppings that time. 1923‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza vi. 70 ‘An' that's where he got 'is come-uppance,’ he gloated. 1943D. W. Brogan Eng. People i. 21 The roles of teacher and taught were suddenly reversed, to the delight of a world that saw the English at last get their come-uppance. 1957G. B. Stern Seventy Times Seven 15 She's bound to get her come-uppance one day. 1959Camb. Rev. 2 May 461/2 When they actually appoint [at Cambridge] a sociologist they will get their comeuppance. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 40 Fleet Street, accustomed to pour scorn on the inefficiencies of other industries, had its ‘comeuppance’ with the report of the Shawcross Commission. |