Meanings
plural Scotchmen
- obsoleteA man from Scotland.
“Gie us a guid conceit o’ oorsel’s” was, I believe, a Scotchman’s prayer, and who will venture to deny that Heaven has lent a gracious ear to the petition?
1894 September 11, Anglia [pseudonym], “[Letters to the Editor.] ‘An Uncouth and Degraded Dialect.’”, in The Glasgow Herald, 112th year, number 218, Glasgow: George Outram & Company, →OCLC, page 9, column 2 - obsoleteA person from Scotland.
- nauticalA piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.First known use 19th century
- A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English Scocheman. By surface analysis, Scotch + -man.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Scotchman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Scotchman
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