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Scotsman

[ skots-muhn ]

noun

, plural Scots·men.
  1. a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.


Scotsman

/ ˈskɒtsmən /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Scotland
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Confusables Note

See Scotch.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Scotsman1

1325–75; Middle English. See Scots, -man
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Example Sentences

That is, until a rough-tongued Scotsman rekindled the flame.

That Byron himself had been raised a Scotsman and a Calvinist placed him from birth slightly askew from the ruling British elite.

The Scotsman escaped from a Nazi prisoner of war camp in 1943 after almost two years of hellish incarceration.

Witness the ridiculous neologism “Jew-washing”—the latest, Jewiest entry in the “No True Scotsman” competition.

Alex Massie is a former Washington correspondent for The Scotsman and The Daily Telegraph.

Hemingburgh makes Bruce speak to his father's vassals before the Irvine episode as a Scotsman, at any rate by descent.

The great Union Jack that flew over the house was hauled down, and laid over the body, fit shroud for a loyal Scotsman.

"We ought really to have kept house in Edinburgh," observed Francesca, looking up from the Scotsman.

How one would have enjoyed hearing that Scotsman say, after one of her most splendid flights of tragic passion, 'That's no bad!'

Later in the century another Scotsman, Thomas Carlyle, made many new words which later writers and speakers have used.

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