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comes Yorkshire over

comes Yorkshire over is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 comes Yorkshire over

What is comes Yorkshire over the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Comes Yorkshire over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of come Yorkshire over.

Words near comes Yorkshire over in the dictionary

  1. comes upon
  2. comes with
  3. comes with it
  4. comes with the territory
  5. comes with the turf
  6. comes Yorkshire over
  7. comeslut
  8. comesluts
  9. comess
  10. comessation
  11. comessations

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