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单词 Scots
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Scots /skots/

adjective

Scottish (almost always used of money, measures, law, and language)

noun

Any of the varieties of the northern branch of English spoken in Scotland, esp that of Lowland Scotland preserved in the poetry of Burns and others (see also Lallans under lallan)

ORIGIN: Scot Scottis Scottish

Scots fir noun

Scots pine (see below)

Scots Greys plural noun

A famous regiment of dragoons, established in 1683, amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers in 1971

Scots Guards plural noun

  1. A Scottish force which served the kings of France from 1418 to 1759, nominally to 1830
  2. A well-known regiment of Guards in the British Army, formerly Scots Fusilier Guards

Scotsˈman or Scotsˈwoman noun

A native of Scotland

Scots mile see under mile

Scots pine noun

(often called Scots fir) the only native British pine, Pinus sylvestris

Scots pint, pound scots see pint, pound1

Scot /skot/

noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Scotland
  2. A member of a Gaelic-speaking people of Ireland, afterwards also in Argyllshire (historical)
ORIGIN: OE Scottas (pl), from LL Scottus and Scōtus; see also Scotch, Scots, Scottish

Scotland /skotˈlənd/ noun

  1. The country forming the northern member of the United Kingdom
  2. Ireland (historical)

Scotˈlandite noun

Naturally-occurring lead sulphite, first identified in Lanarkshire, Scotland

Scottˈy or Scottˈie noun

  1. A nickname for a Scotsman
  2. A Scotch terrier

Scotland Yard noun

  1. The earliest or (New Scotland Yard) two more recent headquarters (1890 and 1967) of the Metropolitan Police
  2. Hence, the London Criminal Investigation Department

Irish Scot (obsolete)

A Highlander

scot /skot/

noun (historical)
  1. A payment, esp a customary tax
  2. A share of a reckoning (also shot)
ORIGIN: OE scot, sceot; but prob partly from ON skot, and OFr esco; see shot1, escot

scot and lot noun

  1. An old local tax entitling all who paid to vote in parliamentary elections
  2. An old legal term embracing all forms of tax
  3. Hence, all forms of responsibility, duty, etc

scot-freeˈ adjective and adverb

  1. Free from scot, untaxed (historical)
  2. Entirely free from expense, injury, penalty, punishment, etc

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