offcumden

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offcumden (plural offcumdens)

  1. (Yorkshire) Someone not from the area; an incomer, an outsider.
    • 1988, The Dalesman, vol. 50, p. 46:
      As an offcumden I have much to learn of Dales gardening.
    • 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101:
      Thine empire is under threat from offcumdens and men that want to pull you under.