comeover

See also: come-over and come over

English

Etymology

Deverbal from come over.

Noun

comeover (plural comeovers)

1. (Isle of Man) An immigrant: a non-Manx person living on the Isle of Man.
   • 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)

Anagrams

• overcome