Comfit

Quick meaning: Comfit is a noun meaning A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.

Meaning

A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a dry sugared confection.
2. (Australia) A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.

Example Sentences

Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.

A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose.

But since I ate your present of comfits—and they were admirable comfits, and I ate them with speed—my heart is changed and inclined toward you, I know not why or how, except it be through magic.

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.

Word Forms

• comfits
• comfiting
• comfited

Synonyms for comfit

Depending on context, synonyms include confection, confect.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include confection, confect, comfiture, nougat, confectionary, nonpareil.

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