单词 | comether |
释义 | comethern. Originally and chiefly Irish English. Now rare. A seductive spell or charm. Only in to put the comether on someone and variants: to exercise a powerful influence over someone; to persuade, fascinate, or seduce someone, esp. of the opposite sex. Cf. come-hither n. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] leada1225 accoya1375 form1399 persuadec1450 persuadec1487 practise1524 temper1525 work1532 suade1548 perduce1563 to draw on1567 overdraw1603 possess1607 bring1611 sway1625 tickle1677 tamper1687 to touch up1796 to put the comether on someone1818 1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy IV. iv. 189 A vagrant, a rebel, who..put his commether upon Clotty. 1883 C. Reade in Harper's Mag. July 205/2 We must buy him, or put the comether on him. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 183 She put the comether on him, sweet and twentysix. 1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold ii. 29 She put the comether on ye, that elegant young maid. 1957 Dublin Mag. Jan. 26 The Big Eel will put the comether on him again, and through the long winter..they'll be canoodling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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