Monday 17th November 2014 Word of the Day Comeuppance \kuhm-UHP-uhns\ Noun 1. Informal. Deserved reward or just deserts, usually unpleasant: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehaviour. Quotes It’s hard to conceive a bigger comeuppance than the one Faustus receives at the end of the play, when the clock ticks down on his two-dozen years. -- John J. Miller, Sympathy for the Devil, The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2014 Origin Comeuppance comes from the verbal phrase come up meaning present oneself for judgment before a tribunal. It is an Americanism that gained popularity in mid-1800’s.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:00:00 +0000
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