comeover
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An immigrant: a non-Manx person living on the Isle of Man.
Example Sentences
- "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."