comether

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kəmĕʹdhər, IPA^(key): /kəˈmɛðə/

Noun

comether (plural comethers)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• put the comether on