Definition of "cummer" []

• The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. (noun)
• A female companion or intimate (of another woman) (noun)
• Lass, the feminine equivalent of "fellow" (noun)

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• "“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.”"
• "“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.”"
• "“Take back your beads, cummer; I know no legerdemain, can do no conjuring tricks,” said the mediciner, who, more moved than perhaps his rugged nature had anticipated, endeavoured to avoid receiving the ill omened gift."