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came Yorkshire over

came Yorkshire over is the simple past of come Yorkshire over.

Meaning of come Yorkshire over

Verb

come Yorkshire over (third-person singular simple present comes Yorkshire over, present participle coming Yorkshire over, simple past came Yorkshire over, past participle come Yorkshire over)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To cheat or deceive.
    • He was not blind to the natives' faults; he amusingly describes how one "who might have thriven in one of our large towns came Yorkshire over him," by bringing him an india-rubber ball which, instead of being solid, was stuffed inside with chewed leaves.1880, The London Quarterly and Holborn Review, volume 53, page 413

Questions about came Yorkshire over

What is came Yorkshire over the simple past of?
Came Yorkshire over is the simple past of come Yorkshire over.

Words near came Yorkshire over in the dictionary

  1. came upon
  2. came with
  3. came with it
  4. came with the territory
  5. came with the turf
  6. came Yorkshire over
  7. camed
  8. camedst
  9. camei
  10. Camejo
  11. Camejos

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