Scotsman

[ skots-muhn ]

noun

, plural Scots·men.

1. a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.

Scotsman

/ ˈskɒtsmən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Scotland

Confusables Note

See Scotch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Scotsman¹

1325–75; Middle English. See Scots, -man

Example Sentences

That is, until a rough-tongued Scotsman rekindled the flame.

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That Byron himself had been raised a Scotsman and a Calvinist placed him from birth slightly askew from the ruling British elite.

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The Scotsman escaped from a Nazi prisoner of war camp in 1943 after almost two years of hellish incarceration.

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Witness the ridiculous neologism “Jew-washing”—the latest, Jewiest entry in the “No True Scotsman” competition.

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Alex Massie is a former Washington correspondent for The Scotsman and The Daily Telegraph.

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Hemingburgh makes Bruce speak to his father's vassals before the Irvine episode as a Scotsman, at any rate by descent.

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The great Union Jack that flew over the house was hauled down, and laid over the body, fit shroud for a loyal Scotsman.

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"We ought really to have kept house in Edinburgh," observed Francesca, looking up from the Scotsman.

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How one would have enjoyed hearing that Scotsman say, after one of her most splendid flights of tragic passion, 'That's no bad!'

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Later in the century another Scotsman, Thomas Carlyle, made many new words which later writers and speakers have used.

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