Meaning of comeover | Babel Free

Definitions

An immigrant: a non-Manx person living on the Isle of Man.

Examples

“Some laborer, a comeover for sure, perhaps had stolen it, disabused his bosses of it, and for what?”

“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.”

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