Offcome

Quick meaning: Offcome is a noun meaning That which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.

Meaning

That which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.

More Meanings

1. The way any thing or business turns out; the way a person comes off from an encounter or enterprise; result; outcome; reception.
2. (UK, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An apology; excuse.
3. An exhibition of temper.
4. (UK, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An escape or evasion by subterfuge or pretext; a way of avoiding or getting out of a difficult or uncomfortable situation.

Example Sentences

In July he wrote to his father: "I have not yet got a master, they all make some objection or other" and no wonder, for who wanted such an "offcome"?

Such movement is called reflex action, or reflex movement, in distinction from the case of the statue, where there is no change or movement in the subject, which is passive, all expression being an offcome, not an "outcome;" […]

[…] to observe as regards exact direction, owing (especially in the instance of pretty bright meteors) to the dense offcome of sparks from the nucleus, or to the phosphorescence it generates as the result of concussion with the air.

Word Forms

• off-come

Synonyms for offcome

Depending on context, synonyms include excuse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include off-come, come-off, issue, emanation, emission, outgo.

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