Meanings
nouncomeover (plural comeovers)
plural comeovers
- Isle of ManAn 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 461 more example
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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Origin
Deverbal from come over.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comeover,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comeover.
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