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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
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of Scotticism1

1710–20; < Medieval Latin scottic ( us ), variant of scōticus Scottish ( Scōt ( us ) Scot + -icus -ic ) + -ism
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Example Sentences

Scotticism, skot′i-sizm, n. a Scotch idiom.—v.t.

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.

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.

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."

The variant whupped is a Scotticism.

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