Scotchwoman

[ skoch-woom-uhn ]

noun

, Sometimes Offensive.

, plural Scotch·wom·en.

1. Scotswoman.

Scotchwoman

/ ˈskɒtʃˌwʊmən /

noun

1. regarded as bad usage by the Scots another word for Scotswoman

Confusables Note

See Scotch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Scotchwoman¹

1810–20; Scotch(man) ( def ) + -woman

Example Sentences

Of these sons only one was married--to a Scotchwoman from Bristol, I have heard, who had had a husband before, a merchant captain, and she brought with her to Court a daughter, Peggy, ready-made as we say.

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A very strong-minded Scotchwoman had been asking the character of a cook she was about to engage.

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Of these sons only one was married--to a Scotchwoman from Bristol, I have heard, who had had a husband before, a merchant captain; and she brought with her to Court a daughter, Peggy, ready-made as we say.

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She was charged with having done grave injury to persons who had incurred her displeasure; but she seems, when all fictitious details are thrust aside, to have been simply a shrewd and sagacious old Scotchwoman, with much force of character, who made a decent living as a herb-doctor.

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You are not a true Scotchwoman, if you don't like the 'parritch.'

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