Scotsman
Americannoun
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Scotsmen
plural
noun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Scotsman
Example Sentences
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Pep Guardiola is also on Scotsman Moyes' shoulder despite managing barely half as many games.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The 1964 Lotus, with Ford’s new Quad-Cam V8 and driven by Scotsman Jim Clark, is shown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
A proud Scotsman, Gadd recalls loving Bell in the 2007 romantic dramedy “Hallam Foe,” where the British actor played Scottish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The Scotsman had built a stellar reputation at sea, offset by an inept sense of naval and parliamentary politics at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The next day, Harry Benson, a Scotsman who was a key photographer for Time Life, met Spassky at the Saga Hotel.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Having started the season playing a 3-4-2-1 formation, Conte confessed the arrival of the two Scotsmen altered his thinking.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
All of a sudden, its 2 a.m. in Edinburgh, and you’ve got 300 Scotsmen screaming “Maggie! Maggie! Maggie!”
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
Gower’s portrayal of Charlie would be comic relief if not for the fop’s obsession with the details of his gloating than the welfare of the Scotsmen fighting for him.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2017
People were always asking us: “How on earth did a bunch of white Scotsmen end up playing black American funk in the 1970s?”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2017
Wanting to shake the corporals off, he quickened his pace, overtook the Scotsmen and pushed his way past a group of nuns shepherding a couple of dozen children in blue tunics.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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