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Scotch

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1407, OED Evaluation: NA

Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish

ExampleMeaning
Oh dance, go to dances. I used to do a lot of Scotch dancing.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
I did to do a lot of Scotch dancing.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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And ah there are Scotch names around here.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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No, no, they're from Scotland and are s-- very Scotch.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
Interviewer: Like, what would you call the building that you kept the cows in, then? Speaker: We, ah- they called it- the Scotch people called it cow-byre. (laughs)
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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Speaker: They might have. Yes, they might have come from Ireland. They weren't Scotch, anyway. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But I guess Irish or Scotsmen. Interviewer: Yeah.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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Interviewer: Why did they call the village Scotch-Corners? Speaker: Well, there's some Scotch people came across the water from down there and built homes.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
Ah, they're between the Scotch- see, my father was born in Wexford, Ireland, you-see?
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
Speaker: See, this stuff out here- there was an uncle of mine, he was married to my aunt. And he was Scotch. And my aunt would be whatever my father- he'd be Irish, wouldn't he? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Were they, ah, Protestant? The Scotch, there?
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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But there was no name for- for the fact that they were Scotch though?
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
Oh! Well, I don't know. There was- quite a few of the names and the Scotch it's the same names.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
When you cross the town line, they're all Scotch.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
Yeah, they're all Scotch up there.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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Speaker: But the- on the other side they were Scotch. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: See, it was just a- the Scotch girl married the English fellow. And he was a stowaway on the boat.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
And they were- were- the Scotch and i-- the Irish were fighting back and forth. The Scotch and English, they were back and forth all night.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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Ah, there was an old Scotchman who used to be round here, and, ah, he used to like to get a few scotches inside too, and he used to come into the m-- sh-- barbershop there, and, ah, he had false teeth and when he get a few drinks the false teeth would fall down, bless his heart, and, ah, he'd get up beside me and he'd say, "You should be Scotch. You should be Scotch. But the trouble is that you are not Scotch," he says, ah, "You were run out of Scotland for stealing sheep." (laughs) He used to tell us this, you-know.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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But that's like the- other than that we ha-- ah I don't have people that- oh we have English people or Scotch people that- that you can tell but they're people that live here.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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Speaker: So, I guess we're more Celtish and you-know connected to the Irish and the Welsh and the Scotch and- Interviewer: Depending on where those border-- borders were. Speaker: Yeah, that's right and they of-course have changed.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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Okay. The- the South-east, the Midlands, Wales; who can understand that language? Scotch, Irish? The different counties?
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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From Scot-- decent. Well there was English in our family and Scotch both and little bit of Iri-- Irish.
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish