comess

Noise and confusion.

Noun

  1. Noise and confusion.
    • 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. - 2004, Aisha Khan, Callaloo Nation,...
    • Somewhere in the comess, Beti had lost her headpiece. - 2012, Connie Wilkins, Steve Berman, Heiresses of Russ 2012, →ISBN, page 260:
    • 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...

Origin

From Antillean Creole komès, from French commerce. Doublet of commerce.