cummer
Americannoun
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a godmother.
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a girl or woman.
Etymology
Origin of cummer
1275–1325; Middle English commare godmother < Anglo-French, Middle French commere < Late Latin commāter, equivalent to Latin com- com- + māter mother 1
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For to declair thair haill sentence, Wald mekle cummer your conscience.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
"I heard tell the Dancers were to be seen from the mountain-top over the sea, and I thought maybe I'd go up and gi'e them a look, cummer ... just a look."
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
From commère comes Scot. cummer or kimmer— "A canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Now the gossip was very fond of his cummer, and used often to go and visit her.
From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
"She was so," Nancy insisted, "and the present lord's grandfather was a strange old cummer who ran away with another man's wife——" "Nancy!"
From Nancy Stair A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane
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