comether, n.
Forms:
18 comedher, 18 com'ether, 18 come-other, 18 commedher, 18 commether, 18– comether, 19 comedther, 19– comideer, 19– commidher, 19– commither. (Show Less)
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English come hither , to put the (also one's) come hither on a person at come-hither n. 1
Etymology: Representing a regional and colloquial pronunciation of come hither (in to put the (also one's) come hither on a person at come-hither n. 1).
orig. and chiefly Irish English. Now rare.
A seductive spell or charm. Only in to put the comether on someone and variants: to exercise a powerful influence over someone; to persuade, fascinate, or seduce someone, esp. of the opposite sex. Cf. come-hither n.
1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy IV. iv. 189
A vagrant, a rebel, who..put his commether upon Clotty.
1883 C. Reade in Harper's Mag. July 205/2
We must buy him, or put the comether on him.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla and Charybdis] 183
She put the comether on him, sweet and twentysix.
1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold ii. 29
She put the comether on ye, that elegant young maid.
1957 Dublin Mag. Jan. 26
The Big Eel will put the comether on him again, and through the long winter..they'll be canoodling.
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