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Scotch (iou)



Scotch adjective & noun3. L16.
[Contr. of SCOTTISH. Cf. SCOTS.]
A. adjective.
= SCOTTISH adjective 1b. L16.
C. H. Pearson Maud, the aunt of the Scotch king. A. G. Gardiner The old prides..of the clans still linger in the forms of the Scotch names.
b. = SCOTS adjective 1b. L18.
c. Typography. Designating a typeface, orig. gen. any imported by the US from Scotland, later spec. a type of the early 19th cent. revived by the Edinburgh type foundry Miller & Richard. M19.
= SCOTS adjective 2. L18.
Sir W. Scott Able-bodied, and, as the Scotch phrase then went, pretty men.
Having a quality or qualities attributed to Scottish things or people, esp. frugality or thrift. E19.
E. Dyson He's touched me three times.., and I'm as Scotch as most people.
Special collocations & comb.: Scotch asphodel: see ASPHODEL 2. Scotch argus: see ARGUS 2. Scotch attorney W. Indies any of various strangler trees of the genus Clusia (family Guttiferae). Scotch baronial: see BARONIAL 2. Scotch Blackface = Scottish Blackface s.v. SCOTTISH adjective. Scotch boiler a fire-tube boiler in which combustion takes place inside the shell. Scotch bonnet (a) the fairy-ring champignon, Marasmius oreades; (b) a small, very hot variety of chilli pepper; = HABANERO 2. Scotch broth a soup made from beef or mutton with pearl barley and vegetables. Scotch cap a man's brimless head-dress, made of firm woollen cloth and decorated with two tails or streamers at the back. Scotch cart (chiefly S. Afr.) a light strongly built two-wheeled cart, used chiefly for transporting gravel, manure, etc. Scotch catch Music a Scotch snap. Scotch coffee slang hot water flavoured with burnt biscuit. Scotch collops (a) beef cut small and stewed; (b) steak and onions. Scotch cloth a cheap fabric resembling lawn. Scotch cousin a distant relative. Scotch cuddy, Scotch draper (now arch. & dial.) = SCOTCHMAN 1b. Scotch egg a hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage meat and fried, usu. served cold. Scotch elm the wych elm, Ulmus glabra. Scotch fir = Scots pine s.v. SCOTS adjective. Scotch glue an adhesive made from hide and other animal products, used (esp. formerly) in carpentry. Scotch-Irish adjective & noun (a) adjective of or pertaining to those inhabitants of Northern Ireland descended fron Scottish settlers or their immediate descendants in other countries; of mixed Scots and Irish descent; (b) noun Scotch-Irish people collectively. Scotch kale: see KALE 1. Scotch LOVAGE. Scotch marmalade a kind of marmalade orig. made in Scotland, usu. with extra orange peel for richness. Scotch mist (a) a thick drizzly mist common in the Highlands; (b) an unreal or insubstantial thing (freq. used as a retort implying that someone has imagined or failed to understand something); (c) whisky served with a twist of lemon; a drink of this. Scotch pancake = DROP-SCONE. Scotch pebble an agate, jasper, cairngorm, or other semiprecious stone found as a pebble in a stream in Scotland. Scotch peg rhyming slang the leg. Scotchprint a type of coated plastic film used in lithographic printing. Scotch rose the burnet rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia. Scotch snap: see SNAP noun 11. Scotch spur Heraldry a charge representing a prick-spur. Scotch tape (proprietary name for) adhesive usu. transparent cellulose or plastic tape. Scotch-tape verb trans. affix or join with Scotch tape. Scotch terrier = Scottish terrier s.v. SCOTTISH adjective. Scotch thistle any of several thistles identified with the thistle forming the emblem of Scotland, esp. the spear thistle, Cirsium vulgare, and (now usu.) the cotton-thistle, Onopordum acanthium. Scotch warming-pan: see WARMING-PAN 2a. Scotch whisky whisky distilled in Scotland, esp. from malted barley; a drink of this. Scotch WOODCOCK. Scotch yoke a mechanism by which circular motion is transformed into simple linear motion, consisting of a crank bearing a peg which slides to and fro along a straight slot.
b. noun.
= SCOTS noun 1. L17.
Sir W. Scott Which is to say, in plain Scotch, the gallows.
collect. pl. The Scottish people; the Scots. M18.
C. H. Pearson The Scotch were divided by a quarrel.
ellipt. (Pl. -es.) Something manufactured in, originating in, or associated with, Scotland; spec. (a) (also scotch) = Scotch whisky above; (b) a Scotch typeface (sense A.1c above); (c) (also scotch) = Scotch peg above. M19.
M. Page 'A Scotch and soda,' Julie said to the steward. attrib.: D. Mackenzie He poured another drink from the Scotch bottle.
? Scots or Scottish is generally preferred in Scotland or by people of Scottish descent, except in sense B.3 and the special collocations given above.
Scotchery noun (rare) Scotch characteristics M18.
Scotchify verb trans. make Scottish in form, character, or manners L18.
Scotchifi'cation noun the action or an act of Scotchifying a person or thing M19.
Scotchness noun Scotch quality or character M19.