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scotch

1  [skoch]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil: to scotch a rumor; to scotch a plan.
2. to cut, gash, or score.
3. to injure so as to make harmless.
4. to block or prop with a wedge or chock.
–noun
5. a cut, gash, or score.
6. a block or wedge put under a wheel, barrel, etc., to prevent slipping.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME scocche (n. and v.), perh. b. score and notch (> AF escocher)

scotch

2  [skoch]
–verb (used with object), noun Masonry.
scutch (defs. 2, 4).
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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.

  3. To cut or score.

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).]
scotch 2   (skŏch)   
tr.v.   scotched, scotch·ing, scotch·es
To block (a wheel, for example) with a prop to prevent rolling or slipping.
n.  A block or wedge used as a prop behind or under an object likely to roll.

[Origin unknown.]
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Word Origin & History

scotch  (v.)
"stamp out, crush," 1825, earlier "make harmless for a time" (1798; a sense that derives from the reading of "Macbeth" III.ii.13), from scocchen "to cut, score, gash" (c.1412), perhaps from Anglo-Fr. escocher, O.Fr. cocher "to notch, nick," from coche "a notch, groove," probably from L. coccum "berry of the scarlet oak," which appears notched, from Gk. kokkos.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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