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
Example Sentences
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"I'm fain to see ye looking sae weel, cummer; the mair, that the black ox has tramped on ye since I was aneath your roof-tree."
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
A very weird-looking cummer was the grand-dame—with a broken, piping voice—tremulous hands, and jaws that, like the stage witch wife's, ever munched and mumbled.
From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
Gude day to ye, cummer, and mony ane o' them.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"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."
From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir
Then I requested her Majesty to be a gossip unto the Queen, for our cummer are called gossips in England; which she granted gladly to be.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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