Scotchman

Examples

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• The Scotchman proudly wore his traditional kilt during the festival in Edinburgh.

• They saw the mine engineer, a great bearded Scotchman named Menzies, come out of the engine house and blow his whistle for the cages to be lowered.

  Blog text (27)

• A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Scotchman, still waiting for his trunk call to come through, watched what he could of the show from the shade of the verandah.

  Fiction book (1996)

• In the lobby, the phone rang, and the Scotchman could be heard arguing excitedly with the operator.

  Fiction book (1996)

• A commercial traveler from Kimberley, a regular at the hotel always referred to by their father as "the Scotchman," he had been trying all morning to get through to his wife, who was expecting a baby.

  Fiction book (1996)

• At the hotel, the Scotchman had just got through to his wife, whose voice was obliterated by the surging roar from the crowd across the road.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Above the murmur of their conversation rose the sounds of the servants clattering dishes in the kitchen, the Scotchman yelling into the phone in accented Afrikaans.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The twins, stifling their giggles, watched as their father placated the Scotchman and urged him back to the booth, where the phone dangled from its cord.

  Fiction book (1996)

• When I met the Scotchman, he greeted me with a firm handshake and a warm smile.

Synonyms

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Scot

vsScotchman

21 1.9

A person born in or living in Scotland

refers specifically to a male rather than any gender

S

Scotsman

vsScotchman

8 1.0

A man from Scotland

is identical in meaning and refers specifically to a male native

S

Scotty

vsScotchman

• Informal

8.5

A friendly name for a person from Scotland

refers specifically to a male and is more formal than this term

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology