Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An idiom or other expression characteristic of Scottish English.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An idiom or expression peculiar to Scotland. Also
Scoticism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
phrase oridiom peculiar toScotland orScottish people.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fankle is a good 'Scotticism' which came from the ON fang, to hold.
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You bet; the Scotticism comes from effect, rooted in the Latin facere, “to do.”
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You bet; the Scotticism comes from effect, rooted in the Latin facere, “to do.”
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I do not know whether it is a Scotticism to stop short at that point of the sentence.
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Once, it was on a Sunday, Tom and I, with a party of friends, had had a very long walk, a regular pedestrian excursion, thirty miles, there or thereabouts, to use a Scotticism, and poor Tom was quite knocked up and confined to bed for several days.
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One fine September morning, when I was accoutring myself in order to go out and hunt the robert (N.B. a genuine local Scotticism for individuals belonging to the rabbit genius), there came to me my young friend
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To reject a forcible Americanism merely because we could, at a pinch, get on without it, is -- Mr. Lang will understand the forcible Scotticism -- to "sin our mercies."
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He says also that 'in none of his historical or philosophical writings does any expression used by him, unless in those cases where a Scotticism has escaped his vigilance, betray either the district or the county of his origin.'
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But he did not burn a long peat stack, to use a Scotticism; for the nation was enraged at him, and one by one his ships went back to their allegiance.
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The following had an indescribable piquancy, which arose from the Scotticism of the terms and the manners.
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