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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Ane suldna speak ill o' the dead—mair by token, o' ane's cummer and neighbour—but there was queer things said about a leddy and a bairn or she left the Craigburnfoot.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
And you go asleep with no mate to wake you in a blow, but the sound of an old piper crooning to you as a cummer croons.
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
"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
"Ay, truly, cummer; and as poor Oliver often mistook friends for enemies while he was in life, his judgment cannot be thought to have mended now."
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
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