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Scotchman

American  
[skoch-muhn] / ˈskɒtʃ mən /

noun

Scotchmen plural
  1. Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.

  2. (lowercase) lingcod.


Scotchman British  
/ ˈskɒtʃmən /

noun

  1. (regarded as bad usage by the Scots) another word for Scotsman

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Commonly Confused

See Scotch.

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Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of Scotchman

First recorded in 1560–70; Scotch + -man

Example Sentences

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He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The vote: Yarborough 903,211, against 671,806 for the Old Scotchman.

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 towheaded young Scotchman, alert and hardworking, made his way among them.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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