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offcome|ˈɒfkʌm, ɔː-|
Also 6 ofcome.
[f. off adv. + come v.]
†1. Arith. The product of multiplication. Obs.
1542Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 127 The ofcome or product. 1570Billingsley Euclid xi. xxxiv. 349 The roote Cubik of that ofcome or product, shall be the second number sought. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 21 Which is called the Multiplee..and..sometime the Offcome.
†2. A conclusion, finish of an argument: cf. come-off 2. Obs.
1653R. Baillie Dissuas. Vind. (1655) 28 To have set down..some solution of these knots, and not to have left them with a meer general offcome. Ibid. 67 But your true offcome is, that these elect infants are not knowne to men.
3. The way in which one ‘comes off’ or succeeds in an affair; (good or ill) success. Sc.
1691Z. Haig in J. Russell Haigs xi. (1881) 327 Lest I have a foolish offcome, and receive disgrace. 1901Blackw. Mag. Aug. 197/2 There were others..who chuckled at Rab's successful offcome.
4. A way of ‘getting off’ (cf. come v. 61 g); an excuse. Sc.
a1700Shields Faithful Contend. (1780) 179 (Jam.) For giving us the fairer off-come in the eyes of the world. 1717Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 270 The offcome of the Presbytery was, that he wavered so in his answers, that they behoved to set them down in write. 1841Trench Parables xxi. (1877) 364 The excuses or ‘offcomes’, as they would be called in one of our northern dialects.
5. An outsider, stranger; one who is not a native of the district. north. dial.
1859J. S. Bigg Alfred Staunton i. 6 ‘Is this Morecambe Bay?’..‘Eye! eye! Morkim Bay ye offcomes ca' t'; but we ca' 't t' Sands!’ 1899H. S. Cowper Hawkshead v. 298 The Burtons were ‘offcomes’, for the name does not occur in the older register. 1946M. Lane Tale of Beatrix Potter v. 97 The north-country preference for distinguishing newcomers for at least a generation as ‘off-comes’, which can be..translated as ‘rubbishing foreigners’. 1961Guardian 18 Dec. 6/2 Farm workers cannot compete for cottages with..weekending ‘off-comes’ out of Lancashire.
So ˈoffcomed ppl. a., coming or having come from outside; ˈoffcomer, an outsider.
1882A. B. Taylor Westmoreland Sketches 27 Ise nivver fergit them two off-cumt chaps singin. 1895Leeds Mercury (Weekly Suppl.) 28 Sept. 3/8 Yond's a off-comed un. 1898B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 109 Off-comer, a stranger in the sense of not having been born in the locality. Ther's nin seea mich good i' some o' ther off⁓comers. 1958Listener 26 June 1054/2 The educated people..are almost entirely strangers, off-comers. 1971Country Life 9 Sept. 630/2 ‘Ah'll wager 'twas yon.’ ‘Why?’ ‘He's an off-comer.’ 1972‘G. North’ Sgt. Cluff rings True i. 10 Give them three years: they'll cotton on to you... In the old days you were still an off-comed-un after twenty. |