Scottish
adjective
Also of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
half-Scottish
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a word derived from
Scottish.
Example Sentences
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As regards his nationality, he is getting used to the idea that he is not English, as he always assumed, but half-Scottish and half-Canadian.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2017
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
