Scotticism

American  

[skot-uh-siz-uhm] / ˈskɒt əˌsɪz əm /

noun

1. a word or idiom peculiar to or characteristic of Scots.

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Scotticism British  

/ ˈskɒtɪˌsɪzəm /

noun

1. a Scottish idiom, word, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Scotticism

1710–20; < Medieval Latin scottic ( us ), variant of scōticus Scottish ( Scōt ( us ) Scot + -icus -ic ) + -ism

Example Sentences

Scotticism, skot′i-sizm, n. a Scotch idiom.—v.t.

From Project Gutenberg

I will give you one taste of this Scotticism of the borders, were it only to clear your thought of the gloom and crags of Ossian.

From Project Gutenberg

A blunder made in Great Britain is to be stigmatized as a Briticism, and it is to be avoided by those who take thought of their speech just as though the impropriety were a Scotticism or a Hibernicism, an Americanism or an Australianism.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Chisholm, of Oakville, used facetiously to object to the clause in the Litany where "heresy and schism" are deprecated, it so happening that the last term was usually, by a Scotticism, read "Chisholm."

From Project Gutenberg

The variant whupped is a Scotticism.

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