scotch
/skɑt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground"
- "He was like the scotch in the smooth, happy machinery of the home. And he was always aware of this fall of silence on his entry, the shutting off of life, the unwelcome."
- "In December, 1949, the Ashby to Worthington section of the former Midland Railway Ashby branch was divided into two portions by the insertion of a scotch block at Ticknall Siding, which requires both the tablet from Worthington and wooden staff from Ashby to unlock it and permit through working."
- "The cars are positioned and secured solely by simple scotches pegged into the decking of the vehicle and easily movable; [...]."
- "We have scotched the snake, not killed it."
- "The rain scotched his plans of going to the beach."
Etymology
From Middle English scocchen (“to cut”), perhaps from Anglo-Norman escocher (“to notch”), from es- (“intensive prefix”) (from Latin ex-) + Old French coche (“notch”). Not related to Scotch.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skɑt͡ʃ/
- British English: /skɒt͡ʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
scotches (plural)
scotches (present, singular)
scotching (participle, present)
scotched (participle, past)
scotched (past)
more scotch (comparative)
most scotch (superlative)
the Scotch (canonical)