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blow-in en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Australia, Ireland) Someone who has only recently arrived in an area or community; a newcomer.
Maybe it's none of my business as a blow-in, but I loved helping someone local, in return for what I have been given by the people of Achill over the last 25 years.
2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Lisa Fukuda, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11:This had been her local when she worked in Central. All the waitresses knew her by name. Now she was a blow-in.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 389:
Forms
Synonyms
comeling · come-here · newling · offcomer