Definitions for Scotch

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Spelling: [skoch]

IPA: /skɒtʃ/

Scotch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in Scotch (cchost).

Definitions for Scotch

noun

1. a cut, gash, or score.
2. a block or wedge put under a wheel, barrel, etc., to prevent slipping.
3. (used with a plural verb) Sometimes Offensive. the inhabitants of Scotland; the Scots.
4. (often lowercase) Scotch whisky.
5. Sometimes Offensive. the English language as spoken in Scotland; Scots.

adjective

1. (used outside of Scotland) of Scottish origin; resembling or regarded as characteristic of Scotland or the Scottish people:
2. Sometimes Offensive. of or relating to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish.
3. (usually lowercase) Informal. frugal; provident; thrifty.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil:
2. to cut, gash, or score.
3. to injure so as to make harmless.
4. to block or prop with a wedge or chock.

verb (used with object), noun

1. scutch (defs 2, 4).

Origin of Scotch

1375-1425; late Middle English scocche (noun and v.), perhaps blend of score and notch (> Anglo-French escocher)

Examples for Scotch

The scotch officer admired his sagacity in detecting this adventurer.

More than perhaps any other distiller of scotch whisky, The Macallan understands the importance of color to a great whisky.

Milicent had asked for a little scotch song, and I was just in the middle of it when they entered.

If scotch whisky is a mountain stream, then Japanese whisky is a still pool.

There is a reason Speyside has become synonymous with scotch whisky.

The word went among us they were scotch, from the Canadas, but of this I know nothing.

Cameron is a scotch name: to what tribe of Camerons do you belong?

And for scotch in particular—which can spend decades in the barrel—wood is critical to the finished spirit.

It is a scotch bow, I see, for the upper nock is without and the lower within.

It represented everything about the kind of comfort and the little luxuries in life that a good glass of scotch can afford us.