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comeover
comeover
English
Noun
comeover (plural comeovers)
- (Isle of Man) An immigrant.
- 2008, Kathleen M. Henry, Critical Mass (ISBN 0595624669), page 46:
- Some laborer, a comeover for sure, perhaps had stolen it, disabused his bosses of it, and for what?
- 2011, Jonathan Raban, Coasting: A Private Voyage (ISBN 0307517713):
- It was a comeover who told me that she disliked the Manx because they were so “provincial.” She was quite wrong. The Manx were not in the least provincial; they were profoundly insular—and the distinction is essential.
- 2008, Kathleen M. Henry, Critical Mass (ISBN 0595624669), page 46:
References
- Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)