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(dated) The Scots language. quotations examples
But Rob was just saying what a shame it was that folk should be shamed nowadays to speak Scotch – or they called it Scots if they did, the split-tongued sourocks!
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 156
(dated) The Scottish dialect of English. examples
countable and uncountable, plural Scotches
(uncountable) Whisky distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley. examples
(countable) Any variety of Scotch. examples
(countable) A glass of Scotch. examples
not comparable
(dated) Of or from Scotland; Scottish. quotations examples
Behind all his assumed unsocialism there lay a true warm heart; nor could anything be kindlier than the welcome which, whenever they did come to him, any of his Scotch relatives received.
1801, William Hanna, Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers, page 422
our landlord informed us, with a sort of apologetic tone, that there was a Scotch gentleman to dine with us.
1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy