Comfit
/ˈkʌmfɪt/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
"Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife."
- 2 A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. Australia
"A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose.."
- 3 candy containing a fruit or nut wordnet
Verb
- 1 To make into a dry sugared confection. obsolete, transitive
"17th c, Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, page 302, The fruit which does ſo quickly waſte, // Men ſcarce can ſee it, much leſs taſte, // Thou comfiteſt in ſweets to make it laſt."
- 2 make into a confection wordnet
Example
More examples"Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.
Etymology 2
Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.