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comeover en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from come over.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:Isle of Man) An immigrant: a non-Manx person living on the Isle of Man.
   • Some laborer, a comeover for sure, perhaps had stolen it, disabused his bosses of it, and for what? 2008, Kathleen M. Henry, Critical Mass, →ISBN, page 46:
   • 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. 2011, Jonathan Raban, Coasting: A Private Voyage, →ISBN:

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