- verbscotch (verb) · scotches (third person present) · scotched (past tense) · scotched (past participle) · scotching (present participle)
- decisively put an end to:"a spokesman has scotched the rumors"
- wedge (someone or something) somewhere:"he soon scotched himself against a wall"
- archaicprevent (a wheel or other rolling object) from moving or slipping by placing a wedge underneath:"when Lucille reached the depot, the coachman shouted “Scotch the wheels!”"
nounarchaicscotch (noun) · scotches (plural noun)- a wedge placed under a wheel or other rolling object to prevent it moving or slipping.
Originearly 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin. The sense ‘put an end to’ (mid 17th century) results from the influence on this of the notion of wedging or blocking something so as to render it inoperative.verbscotch (verb) · scotches (third person present) · scotched (past tense) · scotched (past participle) · scotching (present participle)- cut or score the skin or surface of:"scotch with your knife the back of the Carp"
- render (something regarded as dangerous) temporarily harmless:"feudal power in France was scotched, though far from killed"
nounscotch (noun) · scotches (plural noun)- a cut or score in skin or another surface:"a scotch in his face"
Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French escocher ‘pierce (skin)’, from escoche ‘notch’, based on Old French coche ‘notch’. The sense ‘render temporarily harmless’ is based on an emendation of Shakespeare's Macbeth iii. ii. 13 as ‘We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it’, understood by an 18th-century editor as a use of scotch, but in fact a misreading for scorch.nounScotch (noun) · Scotches (plural noun) · the Scotch (plural noun)- short for Scotch whisky."a bottle of Scotch"
- dated(the Scotch )the people of Scotland.
- datedthe form of English spoken in Scotland.
adjectiveScotch (adjective)- datedScottish:"a Scotch plaid scarf"
Originlate Middle English (in Scotchman): contraction of Scottish.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb
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Scotch whisky (Scottish Gaelic: uisge-beatha na h-Alba; Scots: whisky/whiskie [ˈʍɪski] or whusk (e)y [ˈʍʌski]), [1] often simply called whisky or Scotch, is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two) made in Scotland. The first …
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