单词 | scotch |
释义 | scotch 1 (skŏch) tr.v. scotched, scotch·ing, scotch·es 1. To put an abrupt end to: The prime minister scotched the rumors of her illness with a public appearance. 2. To injure so as to render harmless: "Would that the hour were come! We will not scotch, but kill" (George Gordon, Lord Byron). 3. Archaic To cut or score: "He scotched him and notched him like a carbonado" (William Shakespeare). n. 1. A surface cut or abrasion. 2. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch. [Middle English scocchen, to cut, perhaps from Anglo-Norman escocher, to notch : es-, intensive pref. (from Latin ex-; see EX-) + Old French coche, notch (probably from Latin coccum, scarlet oak berry, from Greek kokkos).] |
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