Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See alamort.
Wiktionary
- adj. Sad; at death's door.
- adj. idiomatic (obsolete, slang) Struck dumb, confounded. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. See alamort.
Etymologies
- Possibly from French à la mort ("to death", "in abundance") (Wiktionary)
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Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
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