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- noun Plural form of
Scotchman .
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Examples
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Scotsmen "Scotchmen" - "I find this a good easy way of annoying them."
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He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a grammarian.
Waverley 2004
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The Scotchmen were the first to score, which they did through Mr. M'Call against the wind, half-an-hour from the start; but the Englishmen soon bore down on the
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
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He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than
The Waverley 1877
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He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a grammarian.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a grammarian.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a grammarian.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a grammarian.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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"Scotchmen" run also from the Midland St.tion at St. Pancras, and from
Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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"No," said Jan, "not the English Government, but two Scotchmen, which is much the same thing.
Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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