all-a-mort

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from French à la mort (“to death; in abundance”)

Adjective[edit]

all-a-mort (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Sad, as if at death's door.
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      How fares my Kate? What, sweet one, all-a-mort?
  2. (idiomatic, archaic) Struck dumb, confounded.

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References[edit]

  • [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “All-a-mort”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.
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