noun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
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Etymology
Origin of Scotchman
Example Sentences
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He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman.
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The vote: Yarborough 903,211, against 671,806 for the Old Scotchman.
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It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat.
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The towheaded young Scotchman, alert and hardworking, made his way among them.
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Robert Dunbar, a Scotchman, became a resident of Hingham shortly after 1650, and probably was the ancestor of all the families who have borne this surname in Plymouth county.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
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