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come Yorkshire over

come Yorkshire over verb: to cheat or deceive.

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
    • [B]efore I left Huddersfield I had the satisfaction of captaining a team which won most of its matches against the leading Yorkshire towns, though Sheffield 'came Yorkshire over us' by making us play upon the wooden floor of their Drill Hall. The Yorkshire children were almost bilingual. The...1930, Alfred Perceval Graves, To Return to All that: An Autobiography, page 208

Forms of come Yorkshire over

third-person singular presentcomes Yorkshire over
present participlecoming Yorkshire over
pastcame Yorkshire over
past participlecome Yorkshire over

Questions about come Yorkshire over

What does come Yorkshire over mean?
Come Yorkshire over means to cheat or deceive.
What part of speech is come Yorkshire over?
Come Yorkshire over is a verb.
What is the past tense of come Yorkshire over?
The past tense of come Yorkshire over is came Yorkshire over.

Words near come Yorkshire over in the dictionary

  1. come what may
  2. come with
  3. come with it
  4. come with the territory
  5. come with the turf
  6. come Yorkshire over
  7. come-all-ye
  8. come-all-ye's
  9. come-all-yes
  10. come-all-you
  11. come-all-yous

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