tocher

T1O1C3H4E1R1

noun

A dowry.

OriginScots tocher ← Middle Irish tochar →
RareScrabble 11
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nountocher (plural tochers)

plural tochers

  1. A dowry.

    And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

    1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 121
verbtocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

present singular third person tochers · participle present tochering · participle past tochered · past tochered

  1. transitiveTo supply with a dowry.

Origin

  1. Middle Irishtochar
  2. Scotstocher
  3. Englishtocher

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

More words from Scots, Middle Irish

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

hectortrocherochetorchetrotche
Cite this entry
APA

tocher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tocher

MLA

“tocher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tocher. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tocher,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tocher.

Source: tocher on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.