Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
- noun A person of Scottish ancestry.
- noun A member of the ancient Gaelic tribe that migrated to the northern part of Britain from Ireland in about the sixth century AD.
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- proper noun A person born in or native to
Scotland . - proper noun A male
given name , a rare spelling variant ofScott .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While Kapoor's structure may yet succeed in attracting global attention to an impoverished corner of England, the chants of "We want Gordon Strachan out" which proved the soundtrack to the latter parts of the deserved 2-1 defeat by Leeds United on Saturday evening indicated the Scot is no longer being offered the benefit of the doubt.
Gordon Strachan running out of time to revive Middlesbrough's fortunes Louise Taylor at the Riverside 2010
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And the idea of Jon Ronson's British PoV from the book being shoved into a midwestern version of himself played by a Scot is just ... kinda wrong, but fittingly bizarre. teufelsdroch
The real-life "Men Who Stare at Goats" were even weirder - Boing Boing 2009
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Paki is a shortening of Pakistani, just as Scot is short for Scotsman.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Not every Scot is thrilled to have the lawfully-named Scottish Executive ‘rebranded’ as The Scottish Government.
Archive 2007-09-02 2007
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Not every Scot is thrilled to have the lawfully-named Scottish Executive ‘rebranded’ as The Scottish Government.
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Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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I've always thought of it as an "ancient" term that ceased to be current around 900 or so - perhaps not by coincidence, about the time the term Scot shows with relation to northern Britain.
The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name? Carla 2007
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It has been almost forty years since the first biography, by the Scottish writer Janet Adam Smith, was published; this more recent effort, by another Scot, is intended to acquit Buchan of charges of bigotry and also of obsolescence.
Great Scot 2004
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