Found 4 items, similar to scotch.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: scotch
scotch, wiski
Indonesian → English (quick)
Definition: scotch
scotch
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: scotch
scotch
n 1: a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to
keep a tally) [syn:
score]
2: whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from
malted barley in a pot still [syn:
Scotch whiskey,
Scotch whisky
,
malt whiskey,
malt whisky]
scotch
v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
“What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's
amazing September surge”;
“foil your opponent” [syn:
thwart,
queer,
spoil,
foil,
cross,
frustrate,
baffle,
bilk]
2: make a small cut or score into
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Scotch
Scotch
\Scotch\, n.
A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping;
as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
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Scotch
\Scotch\, v. t. [Probably the same word as scutch; cf.
Norw. skoka, skoko, a swingle for flax; perhaps akin to E.
shake.]
To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
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We have scotched the snake, not killed it. --Shak.
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Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef
or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with
onion and other condiments; -- called also
Scotch collops
. [Written also
scotcht collops.]
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Scotch
\Scotch\, a. [Cf.
Scottish.]
Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its
inhabitants; Scottish.
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Scotch broom (Bot.), the
Cytisus scoparius. See
Broom.
Scotch dipper, or
Scotch duck (Zo["o]l.), the bufflehead;
-- called also
Scotch teal, and
Scotchman.
Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] --Sir W. Scott.
Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.
Scotch nightingale (Zo["o]l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov.
Eng.]
Scotch pebble. See under
pebble.
Scotch pine (Bot.) See
Riga fir.
Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (
Onopordon acanthium
); -- so called from its being the national
emblem of the Scotch.
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Scotch
\Scotch\, n.
1. The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of
Scotland.
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2. Collectively, the people of Scotland.
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Scotch
\Scotch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Scotched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scotching.] [Cf. Prov. E. scote a prop, and Walloon ascot a
prop, ascoter to prop, F. accoter, also Armor. skoaz the
shoulder, skoazia to shoulder up, to prop, to support, W.
ysgwydd a shoulder, ysgwyddo to shoulder. Cf.
Scoat.]
[Written also
scoatch,
scoat.]
To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc.,
as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
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Scotch
\Scotch\, n.
A slight cut or incision; a score. --Walton.
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