Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confection that consists of a piece of fruit, a seed, or a nut coated with sugar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any kind of fruit or root preserved with sugar and dried; a ball of sugar with a seed in the center; a bonbon.
- To make a comfit of; preserve dry with sugar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
- transitive verb To preserve dry with sugar.
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- noun Australia A
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confection consisting of anut ,seed orfruit coated withsugar . - verb transitive To
preserve dry withsugar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun candy containing a fruit or nut
- verb make into a confection
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English confit, from Old French, from Latin cōnfectum, thing prepared, neuter past participle of cōnficere, to prepare : com-, com- + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
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Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
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From Old French confit ("preserved fruit"), from Latin confectum (cōnfectum).
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madmouth commented on the word comfit
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes
-Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
April 13, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word comfit
if the sugar fits wear it
March 9, 2011