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noun
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adjective
2.
Scottish (def. 1).
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Scots
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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noun
1.
a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
2.
one of an ancient gaelic people who came from northern Ireland about the 6th century a.d. and settled in the northwestern part of Great Britain, and after whom Scotland was named.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English Scottas (plural) < Late Latin Scottī the Irish
before 900; Middle English; Old English Scottas (plural) < Late Latin Scottī the Irish
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| Scots (skɒts) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of, relating to, or characteristic of Scotland, its people, their English dialects, or their Gaelic language |
| —n | |
| 2. | See also Lallans any of the English dialects spoken or written in Scotland |
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Word Origin & History
Scot
O.E. Scottas (pl.) "inhabitants of Ireland, Irishmen," from L.L. Scotti (c.400), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celtic (but answering to no known tribal name; Ir. Scots appears to be a L. borrowing). The name followed the Irish tribe which invaded Scotland after the Romans withdrew from Britain in
EXPAND423 C.E., and after the time of Alfred the Great the O.E. word described Irish who had settled in the northwest of Britain.
COLLAPSE
"Scot, with its variants Scotch, Scottish, etc., may have been an Irish term of scorn (Scuit, pronounced shite); its ulterior origin is unknown." [Shipley]
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