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English
Etymology
Possibly from French à la mort (“to death; in abundance”)
Adjective
all-a-mort (not comparable)
- (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 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?
- (idiomatic, archaic) Struck dumb, confounded.
See also
References
- [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.