Scotch whisky

Variant of scotch

scotch definition

scotch (skäc̸h)

transitive verb

  1. to cut; scratch; score; notch

  2. Etymology: < Theobald's emendation of scorch in Shakespeare's Macbeth, III, ii, 13

    to wound without killing; maim
  3. to put an end to; stifle; stamp out to scotch a rumor

Etymology: ME scocchen, prob. < Anglo-Fr escocher < OFr coche, a notch, nick < VL *cocca, knob at the end of a spindle (later, groove below this knob) < L coccum, berry < Gr kokkos

noun

a cut or scratch

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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