all-a-mort
English
Etymology
Possibly from French à la mort (“to death; in abundance”)
Adjective
all-a-mort (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Sad; at death's door.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
- How fares my Kate? What, sweet one, all-a-mort?
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
- (idiomatic, archai) Struck dumb, confounded.
References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “All-a-mort”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
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