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
"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
"But, cummer," continued the beggar, "it wasna the Countess of Glenallan I meant, but her son, him that was Lord Geraldin."
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"Ye're auld, cummer, and sae am I mysell; but we maun abide His will— we'll no be forgotten in His good time."
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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