half-Scottish

• a word derived from Scottish.
  Scottish

  adjective

  Also of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.

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half-Scottish

But while his boss, President Donald Trump, is half-Scottish - his mother was born in Lewis in the Western Isles - Vance's claim to Caledonian blood has come under some questioning.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

This relative conventionality makes it nothing like the more adventurous books for which this half-Scottish, half-Haitian writer has previously been admired.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2015

Ian, a radical Spaniard, half-Scottish by birth, who grew up in a village between Madrid and Segovia, had told me about the coming protest and encouraged me to join in.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2013

Rising Blood by James Fleming This is the third, final and most hair-raising story yet about Charlie Doig, a half-Russian, half-Scottish adventurer on the rampage during the early days of Lenin's Soviet Union.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011

Their closest intercourse was with the family von Westphalen, the parents of the later Prussian minister—the half-Scottish, highly cultured Baron Edgar.

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart

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