Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gossip; a friend or an acquaintance.
- noun Any woman; specifically, a girl or young woman.
- noun A midwife.
- noun A witch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland the relationship of a
godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. - noun Scotland a female companion or intimate (of another woman)
- noun Scotland
lass , the feminine equivalent of "fellow "
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Ay, truly, cummer; and as poor Oliver often mistook friends for enemies while he was in life, his judgment cannot be thought to have mended now.”
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“Did I know Kate Happer?” replied the widow; “as well as the beggar knows his dish — a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain maybe twenty years syne.”
The Monastery 2008
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“Take back your beads, cummer; I know no legerdemain, can do no conjuring tricks,” said the mediciner, who, more moved than perhaps his rugged nature had anticipated, endeavoured to avoid receiving the ill omened gift.
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The husband was set at liberty, and the gossip and his cummer were sent to the gallows.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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The gossip and his cummer sinned against St. John.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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Quene, to have drawin our brethren of Edinburgh and thame in cummer; swa that sche mycht have had ony cullorat occatioun to have brokin the liegue with thame.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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But yit he had devised to have cutt of such as he thought mycht cummer him; for he had appointed the haill gentilmen of Fyff to have mett him at Falkland, the Mononday after that he was slane upoun the
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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"May be the Highland tyke is right, cummer, (said one o 'the red coats) and the fallow is jumpit thro' the bole, but harkye maister gudeman, an ye hae ony mair o 'your barns-breaking wi us, ye'se get a sark fu' o 'sair banes, that's a'."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Now the gossip was very fond of his cummer, and used often to go and visit her.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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"_Gnursi, cummari_" ( "Certainly, cummer"), said her gossip; so off they went.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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