noun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
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Etymology
Origin of Scotchman
Example Sentences
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Though only 29, McLendon refers to himself as "the old Scotchman" and, on the air, makes himself out to be a contemporary of octogenarian Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vote: Yarborough 903,211, against 671,806 for the Old Scotchman.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman.
From Time Magazine Archive
On an average each Englishman writes forty letters a year, each Scotchman thirty, and each Irishman sixteen.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
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