comeuppance

Anglais

Étymologie

Dérivé de come up, avec le suffixe -ance.

Nom commun

Singulier	Pluriel
comeuppance \kʌmˈʌpəns\	comeuppances \kʌmˈʌpəns.ɪz\

comeuppance \kʌmˈʌpəns\ généralement indénombrable

1. Châtiment.
   • Trump's win hit me in several ways. First, it denied me of his defeat scene. I wanted to see that. His character seemed expressly designed for that sort of comeuppance, as surely as the diner red-neck in Superman II. — (David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 217)

     La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

2. Rétribution justement méritée.