Scotticism

[skot-uh-siz-uhm]

noun

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

Scotticism

/ ˈskɒtɪˌsɪzəm /

noun

1. a Scottish idiom, word, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of Scotticism¹

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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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The variant whupped is a Scotticism.

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