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comfit¹

  • /ˈkʌmfɪt/

Where it comes from

From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.

noun comfits

  1. A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar. Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.

verb comfits · comfiting · comfited

  1. obsolete, transitive To make into a dry sugared confection. 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.

comfit²

  • /ˈkɒmfɪt/

Where it comes from

Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.

noun comfits

  1. Australia A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose..

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@misc{comfit_2026,
  title = {comfit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/comfit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}