Scotchmann.

Brit.

/ˈskɒtʃmən/, U.S.

/ˈskɑtʃmən/

Inflections: Plural Scotchmen.

Forms: see Scotch adj. and n.³ and man n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Scotch adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < Scotch adj. + man n.¹ Compare earlier (in different sense) Scottishman n. 1. Compare also earlier Scot n.¹ 2. Compare slightly later Scotsman n., Scottishman n. 2.With sense 3a compare earlier Scotch fir n. and Scotch pine n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4. In Scotchman hugging a Creole at sense 3b apparently with allusion to a white colonial landlord economically ‘strangling’ his tenants (compare quot. 1850 for Scotch attorney n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4). With Flying Scotchman at sense 5 compare slightly earlier Flying Scotsman at Scotsman n. 2.

1. = Scotsman n. 1.In current Scottish usage Scotsman (or Scot) is preferred; compare discussion at Scotch adj.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland

ScoteOE

rivlin?c1300

bere-bag1352

Scotchman1407

Scottishman1429

Scotsman?c1450

blue cap1598

North Britain1604

Jockc1641

Jacky1653

Whiglander1682

Albanian1685

sawneya1704

North Briton1718

Caledonian1768

Sandy1785

Scotchy1832

Scotty1851

haggis bag1892

haggis-eater1937

1407 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) VIII. 481 (MED) Adam Belle, Scocheman (alias dictus Armiger), Serviens ipsius Comitis.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 Scotcheman, Scotus.

1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. title The Whole Covrse of Chirurgerie... Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 131 May the great Fiend booted & spurr'd, With a Sithe at his girdle, as the Scotchman saies, Ride headlong down her throat.

1683 T. Tenison Argument for Union 26 Robert Mentit de Salmonet a Scotchman, and a Secular Priest in actual exercise of Communion with the Church of Rome.

1734 D. Hume Let. (1932) I. 12 I need not tell you, that I am your Countryman, a Scotchman.

1763 J. Macpherson Temora Diss. p. xxi A Scotchman, tolerably conversant in his own language, understands an Irish composition.

1830 W. Scott Monastery (new ed.) I. Ep. p. lix ‘You are a native Scotchman..?’ ‘Not so,’ answered the monk; ‘I am a Scotchman by extraction only.’

1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. ix. 100 He was a fine example of a rubicund Scotchman; fattened and roseated in London.

1875 N. Elliott Nellie Macpherson 164 An Englified Scotchman, i' my way o' thinkin, 's naither one thing nor anither.

1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 225 Dichty water is the affected fine talk of a Scotchman who would be thought a Southerner.

1977 K. M. E. Murray Caught in Web of Words xi. 209 For a Scotchman James was certainly extraordinarily lacking in hard-headedness.

1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xii. 77 ‘I will mince him up,’ Blair said with extreme ferocity. ‘I told him once I an't a Scotchman.’

2. colloquial and English regional. A travelling draper or pedlar, esp. one who sells on credit. Cf. Scotch adj. 5. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > draper

Scotchman1685

credit draper1857

pack-draper1880

1685 R. Dunning Plain & Easie Method 11 Not..of the better sort of Workmen, but equal with the Scotchmen, the most genteel sort of Runabouts.

1719 T. Marchant Diary 10 June in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1873) 25 184 In all 15s. 9d., to John Gracie, a Scotchman, for M. Balcombe.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. vi. 138 I had not money enough..to buy my new cotton gown, when Alexander Macgill the Scotchman called here.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 381/1 Mother, here's the Tallyman, Mother, here's the Scotchman.

1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. III. i. iii. 38 A class of persons termed ‘duffers’, ‘packmen’, or ‘Scotchmen’, and sometimes ‘tallymen’, traders who go rounds with samples of goods, and take orders for goods afterwards to be delivered.

a. colloquial. A Scotch fir. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir-tree

spurch1295

firc1381

fir-treea1382

mast tree1597

white fir1605

Scotch fir1673

silver fir1707

Scotchman1807

fir balsam1810

Alpine fir1819

deal treea1825

pinsapo1839

fir-pine1843

red fir1852

grand fir1874

mountain balsam1878

Shasta fir1897

Santa Lucia fir1905

1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 70 I was sorry to see a colony of Scotchmen transplanted to the borders of this lake.

1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 419/2 Stiff are those Scotchmen, and close and stout they stand by each other.

1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady vi. vii ‘What shall we do with it [sc. a piece of land]?’ ‘Oh, plant,’ she said. ‘With the ubiquitous Scotchman?’ ‘It wouldn't carry anything else, except along the boundaries.’

b. Caribbean. Scotchman hugging the (also †a) Creole: any of several tropical plants which twine around the trunks of trees and may eventually kill them; spec. = Scotch attorney n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4. Now rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > other

beech-drops1815

rafflesia1822

Scotchman hugging the (also a) Creole1828

Brugmansia1832

John Crow nose1844

pinedrops1848

nettle-blight1849

Scotch attorney1864

Jim Crow's nose1866

witchweed1881

devil's guts1889

1825 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Apr. 137 I do not recollect their constantly comparing this ivy to the Scotchman twisting himself round the Creole; and yet this is as common in the Island of Jamaica and in all the English Islands as the commonest sayings in England.]

1828 A. Abbot Let. 8 Mar. in Lett. written Interior Cuba (1829) xvi. 59 But of all sights, the most amusing, and that continually to be seen, is the Scotchman hugging the creole, as it is very significantly called. This often takes place on the loftiest trees of the forest,—especially the ceyba.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. iii. 113 Do you see that Scotchman hugging the Creole, eh?

1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 25 May 6/6 One more queer tree is the wild fig, familiarly called ‘Scotchman hugging a Creole’.

1903 Garden 17 Oct. 266/2 Speaking of the ‘Scotchman hugging the Creole’..I believe it was a species of Clusia the folks in Jamaica told me was like unto a Scotch attorney.

†c. New Zealand. A variety of the New Zealand speargrass, Aciphylla colensoi (family Apiaceae), which has sharp spiky leaves. Cf. Spaniard n. 3a. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants

lechenaultia1814

spear-grass1847

Spaniard1851

acroclinium1852

fuchsia1866

scrub vine1866

bayonet grass1868

Scotchman1872

Queensland hemp1876

Spanish soldier1901

bindi-eye1911

scab weed1927

1872 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 2 Mar. 5/2 I found Taieri tweeds but an indifferent protection against the sharp spines of the Scotchman, the Spaniard, and the Irishman, as the three plants are named in the district.

1895 W. S. Roberts Southland in 1856 39 As we neared the hills speargrass of the smaller kind, known as ‘Scotchmen’, abounded, and although not so strong and sharp-pointed as the ‘Spaniard’, would not have made a comfortable seat.

4. Nautical. A piece of leather, wood, etc., fixed over a rope to prevent it from chafing; (now) typically a wooden, plastic, or steel roller (cf. roller n.¹ 3a).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > protection against chafing of or by rope

plat1620

puddinga1625

servinga1625

service1662

rounding1672

parcelling1750

bolster1769

plait1799

Scotchman1832

1832 H. L. Maw Let. 2 Aug. in United Service Jrnl. iii. 107 The service of two of the eyes of the lower rigging was chafed through, owing to the negligence of the captain of the top, in not having placed a ‘Scotchman’, or chafing-mat, in the wake of the hawser.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 83 A Scotchman should be made of leather,..to allow the new skin to harden.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 68 How is the lower rigging protected from being cut by the futtock rigging? By lashing iron Scotchmen on the shrouds.

1920 F. B. Webster et al. Shipbuilding Cycl. at Seizing Seizings are also used to secure scotchmen to rigging.

1994 E. Marino Sailmaker's Apprentice (2001) Gloss. 467 Chafing gear, mats, baggywrinkle, Scotchmen (rollers), leather, or lamb's wool for protecting rigging, spars and sail from wear.

5. In full Flying Scotchman. = Scotsman n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific

Flying Dutchman1813

Scotsman1871

Flying Scotchman1872

Orient Express1883

Twentieth Century1902

Royal Scot1927

Rheingold1928

Red Arrow1934

trans-Siberian1939

TEE1963

1872 Times 25 Jan. 7/2 The Scotch express (popularly known as the ‘flying Scotchman’).

1873 J. Blackwood Let. 6 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 365 ‘The Flying Scotchman’, the stoker's name for the train that goes between London and Edinburgh in little more than 9 hours!

1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 59 The same express-men..were proceeding down a bank..at about 3 a.m. in summer with the ‘Scotchman’.

1885 G. Dolby Dickens 33 A railway carriage which was being dragged along at the rate of fifty miles an hour by the ‘Flying Scotchman’.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vii. 165 You should see the Flying Scotchman come through.

1995 Northern Echo (Nexis) 5 Aug. The Flying Scotchman express train travelling south from Edinburgh collided with the back of a goods train heading in the same direction.

6. South African. Esp. among black South Africans: a two-shilling piece, a florin; (also) a half-crown piece. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > florin or two shillings

florin1849

godless florin1849

graceless florin1862

Scotchman1879

lamb-florin1885

swy1924

peg1950

1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 55 In dealing with the Kafirs, I frequently heard the term ‘Scotchman’ applied to a two-shilling piece: and upon enquiry was informed that an enterprising gentleman of that nationality having once passed a large number of florins to the Kafirs as half-crown pieces, the latter had ever since christened the florin ‘Scotchman’.

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess x. 84 Jantjé spat upon the ‘Scotchman’, as the natives in that part of Africa [sc. the Transvaal] call a two-shilling piece.

1911 P. Gibbon Margaret Harding 275 ‘Did he give any message?’ ‘No,’ replied Fat Mary. ‘Jus' stink-flowers, an' give me Scotchman.’

1997 Business Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Appointments section) 1 As a boy growing up in Durban, I often heard Zulus referring to the half-a-crown (then an eighth of a pound sterling) as a ‘Scotchman’.

7. U.S. regional. The bufflehead (duck), Bucephala albeola. Now rare. Cf. Scotch dipper n., Scotch teal n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Bucephala > bucephala albeola (bufflehead)

buffel duck1732

spirit duck1785

butterbox1806

butterballa1813

marionette1838

bufflehead1858

Scotchman1888

1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 83 At Wilmington, N.C., Scotch-duck, Scotchman, Scotch-dipper, and Scotch-teal.

1957 Amer. Speech 32 184 (table) Scotch man. Bufflehead. N.C.

Derivatives

ˈScotchman-like adv. and adj. now rare (a) adv. in the manner of a Scotchman (sense 2) or a Scotsman; (b) adj. characteristic of a Scotsman.

ΚΠ

1783 H. Walpole in Public Advertiser 2 Jan. Shall I to Maurice quite go back, Who Scotchman like, erst bore a pack.

a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1817) 270 Whether ye..Scotchman-like, hae tramp't abreed, To yon big town far south the Tweed.

1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 26 Determining..to be exceedingly prudent and Scotchman-like.

1871 M. D. Peddie Dawn Second Reformation in Spain i. 6 He did so, but in his own peculiar and cautious Scotchman-like fashion.

1902 J. H. Stoddart Recoll. Player 124 Scotchman-like, I had made up my mind, as soon as circumstances would permit, to try and buy a home for ourselves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	scotchman
释义	Scotchmann. Brit. /ˈskɒtʃmən/, U.S. /ˈskɑtʃmən/ Inflections: Plural Scotchmen. Forms: see Scotch adj. and n.³ and man n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Scotch adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < Scotch adj. + man n.¹ Compare earlier (in different sense) Scottishman n. 1. Compare also earlier Scot n.¹ 2. Compare slightly later Scotsman n., Scottishman n. 2.With sense 3a compare earlier Scotch fir n. and Scotch pine n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4. In Scotchman hugging a Creole at sense 3b apparently with allusion to a white colonial landlord economically ‘strangling’ his tenants (compare quot. 1850 for Scotch attorney n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4). With Flying Scotchman at sense 5 compare slightly earlier Flying Scotsman at Scotsman n. 2. 1. = Scotsman n. 1.In current Scottish usage Scotsman (or Scot) is preferred; compare discussion at Scotch adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland ScoteOE rivlin?c1300 bere-bag1352 Scotchman1407 Scottishman1429 Scotsman?c1450 blue cap1598 North Britain1604 Jockc1641 Jacky1653 Whiglander1682 Albanian1685 sawneya1704 North Briton1718 Caledonian1768 Sandy1785 Scotchy1832 Scotty1851 haggis bag1892 haggis-eater1937 1407 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) VIII. 481 (MED) Adam Belle, Scocheman (alias dictus Armiger), Serviens ipsius Comitis. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 Scotcheman, Scotus. 1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. title The Whole Covrse of Chirurgerie... Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 131 May the great Fiend booted & spurr'd, With a Sithe at his girdle, as the Scotchman saies, Ride headlong down her throat. 1683 T. Tenison Argument for Union 26 Robert Mentit de Salmonet a Scotchman, and a Secular Priest in actual exercise of Communion with the Church of Rome. 1734 D. Hume Let. (1932) I. 12 I need not tell you, that I am your Countryman, a Scotchman. 1763 J. Macpherson Temora Diss. p. xxi A Scotchman, tolerably conversant in his own language, understands an Irish composition. 1830 W. Scott Monastery (new ed.) I. Ep. p. lix ‘You are a native Scotchman..?’ ‘Not so,’ answered the monk; ‘I am a Scotchman by extraction only.’ 1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. ix. 100 He was a fine example of a rubicund Scotchman; fattened and roseated in London. 1875 N. Elliott Nellie Macpherson 164 An Englified Scotchman, i' my way o' thinkin, 's naither one thing nor anither. 1913 J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell 225 Dichty water is the affected fine talk of a Scotchman who would be thought a Southerner. 1977 K. M. E. Murray Caught in Web of Words xi. 209 For a Scotchman James was certainly extraordinarily lacking in hard-headedness. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xii. 77 ‘I will mince him up,’ Blair said with extreme ferocity. ‘I told him once I an't a Scotchman.’ 2. colloquial and English regional. A travelling draper or pedlar, esp. one who sells on credit. Cf. Scotch adj. 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > draper Scotchman1685 credit draper1857 pack-draper1880 1685 R. Dunning Plain & Easie Method 11 Not..of the better sort of Workmen, but equal with the Scotchmen, the most genteel sort of Runabouts. 1719 T. Marchant Diary 10 June in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1873) 25 184 In all 15s. 9d., to John Gracie, a Scotchman, for M. Balcombe. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. vi. 138 I had not money enough..to buy my new cotton gown, when Alexander Macgill the Scotchman called here. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 381/1 Mother, here's the Tallyman, Mother, here's the Scotchman. 1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. III. i. iii. 38 A class of persons termed ‘duffers’, ‘packmen’, or ‘Scotchmen’, and sometimes ‘tallymen’, traders who go rounds with samples of goods, and take orders for goods afterwards to be delivered. 3. a. colloquial. A Scotch fir. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir-tree spurch1295 firc1381 fir-treea1382 mast tree1597 white fir1605 Scotch fir1673 silver fir1707 Scotchman1807 fir balsam1810 Alpine fir1819 deal treea1825 pinsapo1839 fir-pine1843 red fir1852 grand fir1874 mountain balsam1878 Shasta fir1897 Santa Lucia fir1905 1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 70 I was sorry to see a colony of Scotchmen transplanted to the borders of this lake. 1858 C. Kingsley My Winter-garden in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 419/2 Stiff are those Scotchmen, and close and stout they stand by each other. 1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady vi. vii ‘What shall we do with it [sc. a piece of land]?’ ‘Oh, plant,’ she said. ‘With the ubiquitous Scotchman?’ ‘It wouldn't carry anything else, except along the boundaries.’ b. Caribbean. Scotchman hugging the (also †a) Creole: any of several tropical plants which twine around the trunks of trees and may eventually kill them; spec. = Scotch attorney n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > other beech-drops1815 rafflesia1822 Scotchman hugging the (also a) Creole1828 Brugmansia1832 John Crow nose1844 pinedrops1848 nettle-blight1849 Scotch attorney1864 Jim Crow's nose1866 witchweed1881 devil's guts1889 1825 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Apr. 137 I do not recollect their constantly comparing this ivy to the Scotchman twisting himself round the Creole; and yet this is as common in the Island of Jamaica and in all the English Islands as the commonest sayings in England.] 1828 A. Abbot Let. 8 Mar. in Lett. written Interior Cuba (1829) xvi. 59 But of all sights, the most amusing, and that continually to be seen, is the Scotchman hugging the creole, as it is very significantly called. This often takes place on the loftiest trees of the forest,—especially the ceyba. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. iii. 113 Do you see that Scotchman hugging the Creole, eh? 1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 25 May 6/6 One more queer tree is the wild fig, familiarly called ‘Scotchman hugging a Creole’. 1903 Garden 17 Oct. 266/2 Speaking of the ‘Scotchman hugging the Creole’..I believe it was a species of Clusia the folks in Jamaica told me was like unto a Scotch attorney. †c. New Zealand. A variety of the New Zealand speargrass, Aciphylla colensoi (family Apiaceae), which has sharp spiky leaves. Cf. Spaniard n. 3a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants lechenaultia1814 spear-grass1847 Spaniard1851 acroclinium1852 fuchsia1866 scrub vine1866 bayonet grass1868 Scotchman1872 Queensland hemp1876 Spanish soldier1901 bindi-eye1911 scab weed1927 1872 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 2 Mar. 5/2 I found Taieri tweeds but an indifferent protection against the sharp spines of the Scotchman, the Spaniard, and the Irishman, as the three plants are named in the district. 1895 W. S. Roberts Southland in 1856 39 As we neared the hills speargrass of the smaller kind, known as ‘Scotchmen’, abounded, and although not so strong and sharp-pointed as the ‘Spaniard’, would not have made a comfortable seat. 4. Nautical. A piece of leather, wood, etc., fixed over a rope to prevent it from chafing; (now) typically a wooden, plastic, or steel roller (cf. roller n.¹ 3a). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > protection against chafing of or by rope plat1620 puddinga1625 servinga1625 service1662 rounding1672 parcelling1750 bolster1769 plait1799 Scotchman1832 1832 H. L. Maw Let. 2 Aug. in United Service Jrnl. iii. 107 The service of two of the eyes of the lower rigging was chafed through, owing to the negligence of the captain of the top, in not having placed a ‘Scotchman’, or chafing-mat, in the wake of the hawser. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 83 A Scotchman should be made of leather,..to allow the new skin to harden. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 68 How is the lower rigging protected from being cut by the futtock rigging? By lashing iron Scotchmen on the shrouds. 1920 F. B. Webster et al. Shipbuilding Cycl. at Seizing Seizings are also used to secure scotchmen to rigging. 1994 E. Marino Sailmaker's Apprentice (2001) Gloss. 467 Chafing gear, mats, baggywrinkle, Scotchmen (rollers), leather, or lamb's wool for protecting rigging, spars and sail from wear. 5. In full Flying Scotchman. = Scotsman n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific Flying Dutchman1813 Scotsman1871 Flying Scotchman1872 Orient Express1883 Twentieth Century1902 Royal Scot1927 Rheingold1928 Red Arrow1934 trans-Siberian1939 TEE1963 1872 Times 25 Jan. 7/2 The Scotch express (popularly known as the ‘flying Scotchman’). 1873 J. Blackwood Let. 6 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 365 ‘The Flying Scotchman’, the stoker's name for the train that goes between London and Edinburgh in little more than 9 hours! 1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 59 The same express-men..were proceeding down a bank..at about 3 a.m. in summer with the ‘Scotchman’. 1885 G. Dolby Dickens 33 A railway carriage which was being dragged along at the rate of fifty miles an hour by the ‘Flying Scotchman’. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vii. 165 You should see the Flying Scotchman come through. 1995 Northern Echo (Nexis) 5 Aug. The Flying Scotchman express train travelling south from Edinburgh collided with the back of a goods train heading in the same direction. 6. South African. Esp. among black South Africans: a two-shilling piece, a florin; (also) a half-crown piece. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > florin or two shillings florin1849 godless florin1849 graceless florin1862 Scotchman1879 lamb-florin1885 swy1924 peg1950 1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 55 In dealing with the Kafirs, I frequently heard the term ‘Scotchman’ applied to a two-shilling piece: and upon enquiry was informed that an enterprising gentleman of that nationality having once passed a large number of florins to the Kafirs as half-crown pieces, the latter had ever since christened the florin ‘Scotchman’. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess x. 84 Jantjé spat upon the ‘Scotchman’, as the natives in that part of Africa [sc. the Transvaal] call a two-shilling piece. 1911 P. Gibbon Margaret Harding 275 ‘Did he give any message?’ ‘No,’ replied Fat Mary. ‘Jus' stink-flowers, an' give me Scotchman.’ 1997 Business Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Appointments section) 1 As a boy growing up in Durban, I often heard Zulus referring to the half-a-crown (then an eighth of a pound sterling) as a ‘Scotchman’. 7. U.S. regional. The bufflehead (duck), Bucephala albeola. Now rare. Cf. Scotch dipper n., Scotch teal n. at Scotch adj. and n.³ Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Bucephala > bucephala albeola (bufflehead) buffel duck1732 spirit duck1785 butterbox1806 butterballa1813 marionette1838 bufflehead1858 Scotchman1888 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 83 At Wilmington, N.C., Scotch-duck, Scotchman, Scotch-dipper, and Scotch-teal. 1957 Amer. Speech 32 184 (table) Scotch man. Bufflehead. N.C. Derivatives ˈScotchman-like adv. and adj. now rare (a) adv. in the manner of a Scotchman (sense 2) or a Scotsman; (b) adj. characteristic of a Scotsman. ΚΠ 1783 H. Walpole in Public Advertiser 2 Jan. Shall I to Maurice quite go back, Who Scotchman like, erst bore a pack. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1817) 270 Whether ye..Scotchman-like, hae tramp't abreed, To yon big town far south the Tweed. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 26 Determining..to be exceedingly prudent and Scotchman-like. 1871 M. D. Peddie Dawn Second Reformation in Spain i. 6 He did so, but in his own peculiar and cautious Scotchman-like fashion. 1902 J. H. Stoddart Recoll. Player 124 Scotchman-like, I had made up my mind, as soon as circumstances would permit, to try and buy a home for ourselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1407
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