comess

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English

Etymology

From Antillean Creole komès, from French commerce.[1] Doublet of commerce.

Noun

comess (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) Noise and confusion.
    • 2004, Aisha Khan, Callaloo Nation, →ISBN, page 211:
      As Jasmine told me emphatically, "facts" are knowledge -- of correct practices and their meanings -- and provide the antidote to the comess of mixed ways of knowing and of behaving.
    • 2012, Connie Wilkins, Steve Berman, Heiresses of Russ 2012, →ISBN, page 260:
      Somewhere in the comess, Beti had lost her headpiece.
    • 2014, J.W. Pulis, Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity, →ISBN, page 268:
      The seer man revealed that the "comess" (conflict, trouble, confusion) this man was experiencing was linked to cuckoldry (perhaps his own; this part of the story was left vague), explaining that the neighbors "had worked obeah” on him and his family, "put[tin] graveyard dirt and many other things in a buried heap" under the outside stairs.

References

  1. ^ “comess”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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