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comfit

[kuhm-fit, kom-]
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noun
  1. a candy containing a nut or piece of fruit.
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Origin of comfit

1300–50; Middle English confit < Middle French < Latin confectum something prepared. See confect
Can be confusedcomfit comfort
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Historical Examples

  • I've 'ad enough of a tipsy missus, and an' ouse without an atim o' comfit!

    A Sheaf of Corn

    Mary E. Mann

  • "Let us eat together," he said, and dropped a comfit into his own mouth.

  • Dicky lighted a cigarette and tossed a comfit at a pariah dog.

  • Of what meannesses will not love be guilty: it drove me to have recourse to my friend Mrs. Comfit to dissipate my doubts.

  • But I never could refuse your sweetheart either a comfit or an absolution all my days.

    Joan of the Sword Hand

    S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for comfit

comfit

noun
  1. a sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed
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Word Origin

C15: from Old French, from Latin confectum something prepared, from conficere to produce; see confect
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Word Origin and History for comfit

n.

early 14c., "sugarplum," from Old French confit "preserved fruit," from Latin confectum, from confectionem (see confection).

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