Meanings
- uncountableScottishness.
This was a historical lapse on Fontane's part that almost suggests that he was prone to "Scotchiness" of the kind that equates Scotland with whisky, the haggis, and the regalia of the modern pipe band.
1999, Gordon Alexander Craig, Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich, page 441 more example
The Scotchiness of the conversations will perhaps hinder the popularity of the book among those to whom this dialect is hard to understand; but MacDonald's Scotch is easier than that of any prose writer whom we know […]
J. G. Holland, Scribner's Monthly, Illustrated Magazine for the People (volume 9, page 768)
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Scotchiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Scotchiness
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