Etymology

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Today it means: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic sgolbach
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  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromsgolbach“thorny place”
  2. English todayScobie

Scottish habitational surname from a lost settlement in Perthshire named with Scottish Gaelic sgolbach (“thorny place”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.