Scotchwoman
Americannoun
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Scotchwomen
plural
noun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Scotchwoman
1810–20; Scotch(man) ( def. ) + -woman
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After graduating from Vassar in 1947, Quigley returned to San Francisco where the very same astrologer, an elderly Scotchwoman, took her under her wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was rather barely furnished to American eyes, but very clean and orderly, and there was nothing bare in the greeting given by the sweet-faced old Scotchwoman to her long-unseen child and that child's child.
From A Round Dozen by Susan Coolidge
"It don't amount to much, but, as the Scotchwoman observed of her clergyman's head, 'it's some good to the owner.'"
From A Noble Woman by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
And now I’m haled from a nice comfy corner in the club to have dinner with that estimable Scotchwoman.
From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs
The smiling Scotchwoman came to the door with her bedroom candle in her hand.
From The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Grace Brooks Hill
The concern originated in a small shop, where, some fifty years ago, a Scotchwomen sold candy, with her two boys as clerks.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
His sisters, who, taking after their mother, were all true Scotchwomen, now urged upon him to comply with Archie's request and accompany him to Lanark.
From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The careful consonants and musical cadences of the Scotchwomen were such a balm to the ear!
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
It's away from the railway; it's away from the high-road: it's kept by a decent, respectable Scotchwoman—" "Decent, respectable Scotchwomen who keep inns," interposed Geoffrey, "don't cotton to young ladies who are traveling alone.
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
I have often admired Scotchwomen of a pronounced Celtic type.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
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