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scotch
1[ skoch ]
verb (used with object)
- to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil:
to scotch a rumor; to scotch a plan.
- to cut, gash, or score.
- to injure so as to make harmless.
- to block or prop with a wedge or chock.
noun
- a cut, gash, or score.
- a block or wedge put under a wheel, barrel, etc., to prevent slipping.
scotch
2[ skoch ]
verb (used with object)
Scotch
3[ skoch ]
adjective
- (used outside of Scotland) of Scottish origin; resembling or regarded as characteristic of Scotland or the Scottish people:
Scotch plaid.
- Sometimes Offensive. of or relating to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish.
- (usually lowercase) Informal. frugal; provident; thrifty.
noun
- (used with a plural verb) Sometimes Offensive. the inhabitants of Scotland; the Scots.
- (often lowercase) Scotch whisky.
- Sometimes Offensive. the English language as spoken in Scotland; Scots.
scotch
1/ skɒtʃ /
verb
- tr to block, prop, or prevent from moving with or as if with a wedge
noun
- a block or wedge to prevent motion
scotch
2/ skɒtʃ /
verb
- to put an end to; crush
bad weather scotched our plans
- archaic.to injure so as to render harmless
- obsolete.to cut or score
noun
- archaic.a gash; scratch
- a line marked down, as for hopscotch
Scotch
3/ skɒtʃ /
noun
- Also calledScotch whisky whisky distilled esp from fermented malted barley and made in Scotland
- a type of relatively mild beer
Scotch
4/ skɒtʃ /
adjective
- another word for Scottish
noun
- the Scots or their language
Usage
Confusables Note
Word History and Origins
Origin of scotch1
Word History and Origins
Origin of scotch1
Origin of scotch2
Example Sentences
So fix yourself a Scotch and listen to this episode of Life Behind Bars.
He told Wired that he had snorted lines of cocaine and downed a bottle of Scotch each day at his desk at an information storage systems company called Omex.
Silver’s death was announced by 3M — maker of products including Scotch tape — where he had worked for nearly three decades.
For example, Dow Jones recently named Macallan the official scotch of Penta, a luxury and wealth sub-brand that’s now part of Barron’s.
Distillers of Scotch whisky — the Britain’s largest food and drink export last year — cheered the news that the 25 percent tariff would be cut to zero.
The company recently partnered with Oakley to create a one-of-a-kind single malt Scotch flask.
During the course of my time behind the bar I developed a passion for single malt Scotch.
It represented everything about the kind of comfort and the little luxuries in life that a good glass of Scotch can afford us.
And for Scotch in particular—which can spend decades in the barrel—wood is critical to the finished spirit.
More than perhaps any other distiller of Scotch whisky, The Macallan understands the importance of color to a great whisky.
They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.
Highland gentlemen of every degree are mostly fond of Gillespie; while operatives from the Lowlands generally prefer plain Scotch.
George Gordon: Scotch birth, so far as can learn; left an orphan; lived mostly in London.
We had seen nothing just like it in England, though some of the Scotch villages which we saw later, matched it very well.
You will find these two traits in every grade of Scotch life—in tradesman, mechanic, and peasant.
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