Plural of comeuppance; deserved punishments or rewards that someone finally receives for their actions.
From 'come up' (arrive, happen) + 'ance' (suffix forming nouns), with dialectal origins in American English by the 1850s. Originally meant 'what is coming to one' as a natural consequence.
The word 'comeuppance' uses a suffix borrowed from French, but 'come up' is pure Germanic English—it's a great example of how English glues together native words and borrowed endings to create vivid new meanings that feel completely natural.
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