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coming Yorkshire over

coming Yorkshire over is the present participle and gerund 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 coming Yorkshire over

What is coming Yorkshire over the present participle and gerund of?
Coming Yorkshire over is the present participle and gerund of come Yorkshire over.

Words near coming Yorkshire over in the dictionary

  1. coming upon
  2. coming with
  3. coming with it
  4. coming with the territory
  5. coming with the turf
  6. coming Yorkshire over
  7. coming-of-age
  8. coming-out
  9. coming-out parties
  10. coming-out party
  11. coming-outs

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