comeover

See also: come-over and come over

English

Etymology

come +‎ over

Noun

comeover (plural comeovers)

  1. (Isle of Man) An immigrant.
    • 2008, Kathleen M. Henry, Critical Mass, →ISBN, 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:
      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.

References
  • Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

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