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Definition: Scotch |
ScotchAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; "Scots gaelic"; "the Scots community in New York"; "`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'"; "`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or `Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'". 2. Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; (`scotch' is used only informally). Noun1. A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally). 2. Whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still. Verb1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent". 2. Make a small cut or score into. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Scotch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Literature | Scotch The people or language of Scotland. Highland Scotch. Scottish Gaelic. Lowland Scotch. The English dialect spoken in the lowlands of Scotland. Broad Scotch. The official language of Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sometimes used in novels and in verse. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A wooden stop-block or iron catch placed across or between the rails of underground roadways, to keep the cars from running loose, or to hold them when standing upon an inclined plane. b. Leic. The lower lift of coal that is wedged up in driving a heading.c. To dress, as stone, with a pick or picking tool. (references) |
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Scotch, Scottish or Scots?
The adjective or noun Scotch is an Early Modern English (16th Century) contraction of the word Scottish which was later adopted into Older Scots. It more or less replaced Scottish as the prevailing term in England. Scots (the modern form of Older Scots Scottis1) predominated in Scotland until the 18th Century when anglification became fashionable and Scotch was used in both England and Scotland. From the early 19th Century Scots or Scottish were the preferred usages among educated Scottish people, Scotch being regarded as an anglicized affectation. Scotch is sometimes still used by the working classes who often regard Scots as an anglicized affectation. Scotch remained in use for phrases like Scotch broth and Scotch terrier etc.
1. Inglis was the Older Scots for English and the modern form can still be found in Surnames and place names as Ingles or Inglis e.g. Ingleston or Ingliston etc.
See Also:
- Scotch whisky
- Scots Language
- Ulster Scots
Other meanings
- A scotch is another name for a chock, a wedge which is placed under a wheel to stop it moving.
- To scotch a rumuor is to quash or refute it.
- a scotch egg is a boiled egg served wrapped in sausage meat, then dipped in breadcrumbs, and fried.
- Scotch Tape is a commercial brand name for a type of sticky tape.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scotch."
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Scotch whisky, often called simply Scotch, is a type of alcoholic beverage made in Scotland. (The Scotch and Canadian spirits are called "whisky"; the Irish and American ones "whiskey"). The main distinction in the flavour of Scotch is from the use of peat in the distilling process. The name whisky is a transformation of the word usquebaugh, itself a transformation of the Scots Gaelic uisge beatha and Irish Gaelic uisce beatha, literally meaning the "water of life".
History
Whisky has been produced in Scotland for a long time. It is generally agreed that Irish monks brought distillation with them while converting the Scots to Christianity in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. The first taxes on whisky production were imposed in 1644, causing a rise in illicit whisky distilling in Scotland. In 1823, Parliament eased the restrictions on licensed distilleries, while at the same time making it harder for the illegal stills to operate, ushering in the modern era of Scotch production.
Regional variants
Scotland is divided into 4 regions and 2 sub-regions that produce whiskies with different regional characteristics:
These characteristics are described by words like smoky, peaty, seaweedy, etc.
- Highland whisky,
- Speyside whisky,
- Island whisky (incl. the west islands of Jura, Mull, Arran and Skye as well as the North Sea Orkney Islands),
- Lowland whisky,
- Islay whisky,
- Campbeltown whisky.
Methods of production
Distillation
There are two different distilling methods used to create Scotch whisky: grain distilling and malt distilling.
Grain whisky
Grain whisky distillation begins when the grain, usually wheat or maize, is mashed with water. An enzyme, needed to break down starches in the grain to sugars, is added, followed by yeast to begin fermentation. Grain whisky is distilled in a continuous operation in a Patent still, also known as a Coffey still after Aeneas Coffey who developed it in 1831. Only seven grain distilaries currently exist, most located in the Lowlands. They produce the majority of spirit (whisky before it has been aged) used in blended whisky.
Malt Whisky
Malt whisky distillation begins when the barley is malted, or allowed to begin germination. Malting releases enzymes that breakdown starches into sugars. The malted barley is then dried, often over peat fires, which adds much of the flavor to the final product. The dried malt is ground and soaked in water, disolving the sugar and producing wort, the sugary liquid. Yeast is then added, and the wort is allowed to ferment. The liquid, now at about five per cent alcohol, is called wash. The wash is moved into the pot stills for the first of two or three distillations. Once all the distillations are complete, the unaged spirit has an alcohol content of about 60 per cent by volume.
Ageing
Once distilled, the product must be left to mature in old Sherry or Bourbon barrels. Bourbon production is a nearly inexhaustible generator of used barrels, due to a regulation requiring the use of new oak barrels. The aging process results in evaporation, so each year in cask is more loss of volume, making older whisky more expensive to produce. The distillate must age for at least 3 years to be called Scotch whisky, although most single (unblended) malts are offered at a minimum of 8 years of age. The older the whisky, the better the flavour, although they tend to level off after 25 years or so.
Colour is usually a good clue to the provenance and type of whisky. Old, sherried, whisky is usually very dark in colour - think Coca-Cola. Old, un-sherried, whisky is usually a golden-yellow/honey colour. Some whiskies can be almost clear, even after 10 years and more in wood. The late 1990s saw a trend towards fancy 'wood finishes' - reracking whisky from one barrel into another of a different type to add the 'finish' from the second to the maturation effects of the first. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottling number 1.81 is known by some as "the green Glenfarclas": it was finished in a rum cask after 27 years in an oak (ex-Bourbon) barrel and is the colour of extra-virgin olive oil.
Types of Scotch
A Single Malt Scotch is an unblended Malt Whisky; all the whisky was distilled at the same distillery, and is not combined with grain whisky. Noted single malts include Highland Park, Talisker, The Glenlivet, and Lagavulin.
A Blended Scotch Whisky combines grain and malt whiskies from several different distilleries. This is cheaper and generally considered inferior to single malt, however, over 90 per cent of the whisky produced in Scotland is blended Scotch. Blended Scotch Whiskies generally contain between 10 and 50 per cent Malt Whiskey, with the higher quality brands having the highest per cent malt. Master Blenders combine the various malts and grain whiskies to produce a consistent "brand style'. Theoretically a blend based on several very good malts might be better than a poor single malt. (To quote Sean Connery: "Scotch, straight up. Any Single Malt will do.") Noted blended Scotch whiskies include Johnnie Walker, Cutty Sark, Famous Grouse, and Chivas Regal.
Recently, Vatted Malt Whisky, or Pure Malt Whisky, has appeared on the market. Vatted malts consist of several Single Malts mixed together in a large vat and allowed to age for a short time. Noted vatted malts include Chivas Brothers Century, which contains 100 single malts.
Another recent trend is the release of Single Grain Scotch Whisky, which, as it's name suggests, is unblended grain whisky from a single distillery. Single grain whiskies include Black Barrel and Cameron Bridge.
External links
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Malt Whisky
- Scotch Whisky Association www.scotch-whisky.org.uk
- whisky.com
- www.scotchwhisky.com
With the exceptions of whisky, Scotch broth and other comestibles, a person or thing from Scotland is Scottish, not Scotch.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scotch whisky."
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Single malt Scotch whisky is Scotch whisky which comes from a single distillery using malted barley as the only grain ingredient. This is in contrast to blended whisky which consists of a mixture of single malt whiskies and whiskies derived from other grains.
Production
All single malt Scotch goes through a similar production process, as outlined below.
Malting
The barley used to make the whisky is malted, or allowed to begin germination, by soaking the grain in water for 2-3 days and then artificially rising their temperature for eight to ten days. Traditionally each distillery had its own malting floor where this was done, but now most of the distilleries use professional maltsters who prepare each distillery's malt to exacting specifications. Malting is used because the barley has a high starch content and germinating kernels produce an enzyme that breaks the starch down into the sugar maltose. The germination is stopped when the optimum enzyme levels have been reached but before much of the sugar has been used for the growing plant. At this stage, the barley is known as green malt.
Kilning and peating
The green malt is then quickly dried in a kiln over a fire. The fire includes an amount of peat which adds a smokey aroma and flavor to the whisky. The smokey flavor comes from phenol that is released by the peat and abosrbed by the malt. The intense, smokey malts from Islay often have phenol levels around 50 parts per million, whereas the much more subtle malts of Speyside have phenol levels of around 2 - 3 ppm. If the distillery uses an outside malting house, the malt is now ready for delivery.
Milling
Most distilleries mill their own malt. The malt is crushed into a powder called malt grist, increasing its surface area, which allows more of the sugar to be extracted during fermentation.
Mashing
The malt grist is combined with hot water in a stainless steel basin called a mashtun, which dissolves all the sugar and starch in the grist. Typically, each batch of grist is mashed three times to extract all the fermentable sugars. The resulting sugary liquid is called wort.
Fermentation
Yeast is combined with the wort in a large vessel (often tens of thousands of litres) called a washback. Washbacks are commonly made of Oregon pine, or stainless steel. The yeast consumes the maltose and gives off carbon dioxide and ethanol. Fermentation can take up to three days to complete. When complete, the liquid is now known as either wash or weak beer.
Distillation
The wash is then pumped into a copper pot still, known as the wash still, to be distilled. The wash is heated and the ethanol, which has a lower boiling point than water, evaporates off and is collected in a condenser and liquified. This spirit, known as the low wines has an alcohol content of about 20 to 40 per cent alcohol by volume. The low wines are then pumped into another pot still, known as the spirit still and distilled a second, and in the Lowlands a third, time. The final spirit has an alcohol content of around 60 to 80 per cent alcohol by volume.Much of the body, or mouth feel, of the final whisky is believed to come from the size and shape of the stills used in it's production. When a still wears out and has to be replaced, or when a distillery decides to expand the number of stills it operates, exact measurments of the existing stills are taken to ensure the new stills are reproduced exactly like the old. There are stories of master distillers having dents placed in brand new stills so that matched those in the old still, and one distiller refuses to allow the cobwebs from being cleaned off his stills for fear of altering the whisky.
Maturation
The spirit, or unaged whisky, is then placed in wooden barrels or casks for several years to mature. By law, all Scotch must age a minimum of three years in casks, while the vast majority single malts are matured for much longer; the general minimum age for a bottled single malt being eight years. The whisky continues to develop and change as it spends more time in the wood, and ages up to thirty years are not uncommon. Each year spent in the wood reduces the alcohol content of the whisky, as the alcohol evaporates through the pourous oak, which is poeticly known as the angels' share.Again, the selection of casks has a profound effect on the charactor of the final whisky. Single malt Scotch is too delicate to be aged in new oak casks, as the vanillin in the oak would overpower the whisky, so used casks are needed. The most common source of casks is American whiskey producers, as U.S. laws require that bourbon and Tennessee whiskey be aged in new oak casks. Traditionally, sherry casks were used as sherry was shipped to England in the casks, which were expensive to return empty and unwanted by the sherry cellars. Sherry casks are commonly considered superior to bourbon casks, however, stainless steel shipping containers have reduced their availabilaty, such that the Macallan Distillery builds casks and leases them to the sherry cellars in Spain for a time, then has them shipped back to Scotland. Other caskes used include those that formerly held port and madeira, while experiments with used rum and cognac casks are being performed.
Bottling
The whisky to be bottled is generally taken from several casks and mixed in a large vat. However, only whisky made from a single distillery can be used if the whisky is to be called a single malt, if more than one single malt is used the whisky is a vatted malt, and if the cheaper to produce grain whisky is used, the result is a blended scotch whisky. The whisky is then diluted with water to its bottling strength, generally 40 to 46 per cent alcohol by volume, and bottled for sale. Recently, cask strength, or undiluted, whisky has become popular, with alcohol content as high as 60 per cent.The age statement on a bottle of single malt Scotch is the age of the youngest malt inlcuded, as commonly the whiskies of several years are mixed together to create a more consistent house style. On occasions when a year produces a superior whisky, it is often bottled alone with distilled in and bottled in labels instead of the regular age statement. This is the standard method for the Glenrothes Distillery, whose label is a copy of the hand written cask tasting card, signed by the master distiller when he tasted and approved the cask several times during the maturation process.
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Regions
Flavor, aroma, and finish will differ widely from one single malt to the next, but generally the region the malt is from will give you an idea of what to expect in its general character.
Single Malt Scotch whisky can be categorized into the following regions and sub-regions:
- Campbeltown Single Malts
- Highland Single Malts
- Island Single Malts
- Speyside Single Malts
- Islay Single Malts
- Lowland Single Malts
- Orkney Single Malts
See also
Wikipedia:WikiProject Malt Whisky is a form that can be used to review tasting notes.
References
- Gabányi, Stefan; Stockman, Russell (Tr) (1997). Whisk(e)y (first ed.). New York, New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-7892-3080-9
- Harris, James F.; Waymack, Mark H. (1992). Single-malt whiskies of Scotland. Peru, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8126-9213-6
- Jackson, Michael; Lucas, Sharon (ed.) (1999). Michael Jackson's complete guide to Single Malt Scotch (fourth ed.). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press Book Publishers. ISBN 0-7624-0731-X
- Murray, Jim (2000). The world whiskey guide. London; Carlton Books Limited. ISBN 1-84222-006-3
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Single Malt Scotch."
Synonyms: ScotchSynonyms: economical (adj), frugal (adj), sparing (adj), stinting (adj), malt whiskey (n), malt whisky (n), score (n), baffle (v), bilk (v), cross (v), foil (v), frustrate (v), queer (v), spoil (v), thwart (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp. |
Hindrance | Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude. |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Inhabitant | Adjective: indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal, autochthonous; British; English; American; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh; domestic; domiciliated, domiciled; naturalized, vernacular, domesticated; domiciliary. |
Insufficiency | Do insufficiently; adVerb: scotch the snake. |
Noncompletion | Fall short of; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse. |
Notch | Verb: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke. |
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Screenplays | You know normally a patient wouldn't have a vat of Scotch during a session (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) We have you patched together with scotch tape and bailing wire as it is. (Knight Rider; writing credit: Cory Applebaum; Bob Benedetto) Why don't you break out the scotch first (The Birdmen; writing credit: David Kidd) Out of Scotch, thanks to you, Ass (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe) Around here, we brush our teeth with Scotch. (Baa Baa Black Sheep; writing credit: Gregory H. 'Pappy' Boyington) | |
Lyrics | With a bottle of scotch and watch lots of crotch (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) Drink Scotch whisky all night long (Deacon Blues; performing artist: STEELY DAN) | |
Clever | You work for a defense contractor if your badge company name is applied with scotch tape. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scotch Corner (1972) Pardon My Scotch (1935) Scotch Highball (1930) A Bit of Scotch (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Mut is down" Enroute to Scotch Cap Lighthouse First horses in the Aleutians Party off of DISCOVERER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Figure 47. Scotch messenger mounting invented by Hugh R. Mill who was inspired by the mounting devised by George Rung. Mill also incorporated design elements of the Magnaghi mounting. This instrument was first used in a series of observations from the ARK in 1884 in studies undertaken from the Scottish Marine Station at Granton. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 48. Scotch messenger mounting. Left: before reversing. Right: after reversing. This equipment was probably used by Prince Albert I of Monaco. The design is very similar to that used in the Magnaghi helical mounting, but instead used a messenger activating a lever to invert the reversing thermometer. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 56. Negretti and Zambra mounting with chain and messenger reversing system. This system was devised in 1912 by Negretti and Zambra as a modification of the "Scotch" mounting. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 4. Stevenson dynanometer, designed by the Scotch engineer Thomas Stevenson in 1843. This instrument measured the pressure exerted by waves on a vertical surface. He used this instrument to measure the pressure of waves at the lighthouse at Skerryvore where pressures close to 30 tons per square meter were observed. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Scotch Thistle at the Garden Creek Preserve. (The Nature Conservancy). Credit: Jerry Asher. |
 | Campground in Snake River abandoned due to Scotch Thistle. Credit: Jerry Asher. |  | A dying tree in the Scotch Creek RNA. Credit: Unknown. |
 | "An effective technique to pulling scotch broom roots". Credit: Saundra Miles. |  | Scotch (Scot's) Broom, a noxious weed, (Cytisus scoparius) along the Rogue River Drive at Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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John Locke | 1690 | One example of this is to be found in the Scotch Annals. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Macbeth had something twisted round him, that went over one shoulder and under the other arm, and was meant, I believe, for a Scotch plaid |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Seven generations back Americans, and beyond that Irish, Scotch, English, German |
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| "Scotch" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 48.50% of the time. "Scotch" is used about 564 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 48.5% | 274 | 17,727 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.6% | 252 | 18,696 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.84% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.06% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 564 | N/A |
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Expressions using "Scotch": ad scotch the snake ♦ ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite ♦ scotch a conspiracy ♦ scotch a snake ♦ Scotch and soda ♦ Scotch asphodel ♦ scotch block ♦ Scotch broom ♦ scotch broth ♦ scotch carpet ♦ Scotch checks ♦ scotch collops ♦ scotch dipper ♦ scotch duck ♦ scotch egg ♦ scotch fiddle ♦ scotch fir ♦ Scotch gale ♦ Scotch Grove ♦ scotch hearth ♦ scotch kale ♦ Scotch kiss ♦ Scotch laburnum ♦ Scotch marigold ♦ scotch mist ♦ scotch nightingale ♦ Scotch pancake ♦ scotch pebble ♦ scotch pine ♦ Scotch Plains ♦ scotch reel ♦ scotch rite ♦ scotch tape ♦ scotch teal ♦ scotch terrier ♦ scotch the snake not lull it ♦ Scotch thistle ♦ scotch tweed ♦ scotch whiskey ♦ scotch whisky ♦ scotch woodcock ♦ the scotch. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Scotch": Scotch-hopper, scotch-on-the-rocks, scotch-roman, scotch-taped. | |
Ending with "Scotch": bell-scotch, Butter-scotch, hop-scotch. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
scotch | 610 | scotch glasses | 20 |
scotch plain nj | 374 | scotch terrier | 20 |
single malt scotch | 184 | creek scotch | 18 |
scotch whiskey | 140 | brand scotch | 17 |
scotch tape | 108 | macallan scotch | 17 |
scotch whisky | 80 | cutty scotch | 15 |
scotch broom | 62 | scotch soda | 14 |
scotch guard | 57 | rating scotch | 14 |
scotch brite | 50 | scotch sirloin | 13 |
scotch pine | 35 | scotch wiskey | 13 |
scotch bonnet pepper | 32 | j b scotch | 12 |
johnny walker scotch | 28 | single malt scotch whisky | 12 |
scotch bonnet | 27 | dewars scotch | 12 |
eggs scotch | 26 | 3m scotch tape | 12 |
the scotch irish | 26 | scotch malt whisky | 12 |
beer bourbon one one one scotch | 26 | johnnie walker scotch | 12 |
scotch plain | 24 | scotch plain fanwood high school | 11 |
moss scotch | 24 | scotch pine tree | 11 |
scotch 3m | 24 | boiler scotch | 11 |
scotch marine boiler | 22 | club scotch | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "Scotch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skocezët, skocez (Gael, Sawney, scot, scotchman, scotsman, scottish), shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), neutralizoj (counteract, counterbalance, negative, neutralize), dialekt skocez, çarmatos (disarm, unarm, unrig), çarmatoj (disarm, unarm, unrig). (various references) | |
Arabic | وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, show up, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), خدش (abrasion, claw, graze, mark, rake, scarify, score, scrape, scratch, scratch off), اللغة الأسكتلندية, إسكتلندي, أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scuttle, torpedo), أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срязвам (cut, detruncate, rebuff, repulse, scissor, set down, shear, snub, squelch), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), уиски (rye, rye whisky, tanglefoot, usquebaugh, whiskey, whisky), рязвам, ранявам (maul, pip, sabre, shoot up, wound), шотландски (caledonian, scots, scottish), осуетявам (abort, baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, short circuit, sink, spoil, wash out), обезвредявам (delouse, neutralize), лека рана, подпирам с клин, драскотина (graze, scar, score, scrape, scratch, streak). (various references) | |
Chinese | 刻痕. (various references) | |
Czech | skotský (caledonian, scots, scottish), skotská whisky, skotština, zmařit (baffle, crush, destroy, ditch, foil, frustrate, stave off, thwart, upset), umlèet (hush, muzzle, shut up, silence, squash, stifle, still), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame). (various references) | |
Danish | stopklods (lug brick), blokeringshaandtag. (various references) | |
Dutch | blokkeerhefboom. (various references) | |
Farsi | مسدودکردن (Bar, Bloc, Block, Calk, Choke, Clog, Close, Jam, Obstruct, Obturate, Preclude), مانع غلتیدن شدن , مرددبودن (Hesitate, Linger, Oscillate, Vacillate, Wobble), نوارچسب اسکاچ , چاک دادن (Rift, Slash, Slit, Strip, Tear, Unseam), چاک (Cut, Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Slit, Slot, Split, Suture, Tear), له کردن (Mangle, Maul, Pummel, Quash, Rase, Squash, Squeeze, Squelch), ویسکی اسکاتلندی , زخمی کردن , زخم (Gash, Sore, Trauma, Wound), خراش (Abrasion, Attrition, Graze, Irritation, Rift, Scrape, Scuff). (various references) | |
Finnish | skotlantilainen (Scot, Scots|man, Scotsman, Scottish), skotlannin kieli (Scots). (various references) | |
French | réprimer, réprimander (scold), faire échouer (scuttle), démentir, cale d'arrêt, étrier d'arrêt, étouffer, écossais (scot, scotchman, scots, scottish). (various references) | |
German | schottisch (scots, scottish), whisky (bourbon, rye, scotch whiskey, whiskey, whisky), unterbinden (hamstring, ligature, prevent, stop, throttle, tie underneath), Blockierungshebel, abwürgen (kill). (various references) | |
Greek | καθιστώ αβλαβή, σκώτοι, σκωτσέζικοσ, σκωτικόσ (scots, scottish), σκωτικό ουίσκυ, σκωτική διάλεκτοσ, σφήνα μπλοκαρίσματος, γριτζανιά, μοχλός μπλοκαρίσματος, περιορίζω (abridge, circumscribe, confine, constrict, contain, cramp, crib, cut down, inhibit, limit, localise, localize, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scant, stint, straiten), πληγώνω (hurt, injure, scar, scathe, wound), εγκόπτω (mortise, nig), αμυχή (abrasion, scarification, scratch), ουίσκι (scotch 1, whiskey). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשים קץ (put a stop, put an end to), לשרוט (graze, scarify, scrape, scratch, skin, slash), לפצוע (bruise, hurt, injure, mangle, maul, slash, wound), לחתוך (cut, gash, incise, intersect, jag, sever, slash), לחסל (annihilate, do away with, eliminate, liquidate, wipe out), ל"שמי" (annihilate, destroy, exterminate, extirpate, lay waste, obliterate, smash, wipe out). (various references) | |
Hungarian | skót (die-hard, plaid, sandy, Sawney, Scot, scots, scotsman, Scotswoman, scottish), skóciai, rovátka (chase, cut, gouge, groove, indent, jag, Nick, notch, notching, score, snick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | scotch, wiski (whisky). (various references) | |
Italian | scotch (scotch tape, sellotape), rendere innocuo, ostacolare (bar, block, cross, delay, fetter, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, interfere, militate against, obstruct, prevent, Stonewall, thwart), mettere a tacere (Burke, silence), leva di bloccaggio, bloccare (block, blockade, get stuck, lock, shut out, stall, stick, stop). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | スコッチ . (various references) | |
Korean | 스"틀랜" (Scottish). (various references) | |
Manx | ushtey bea (usquebaugh, whisky), Albinagh (Scot, Scottish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otchscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | talho (chop, chunk of wood, cut, gash, make, slash), incisão (cut, cutting, kerf, nick, score, slit, snick), golpe (bat, biff, blast, blow, bop, coup, dint, drive, floorer, hit, jab, knock, mouthful, putsch, smasher, sockdolager, stroke, swat), escocês (gael, sawney, scot, scotchman, scots, scotsman, scottish), cutilada (gash, slash, sword-cut), cunha para roda, cunha de bloqueio, calço (jargon, quoin, shim, shoe, skid, stop, underlay). (various references) | |
Romanian | suprima (abolish, abrogate, discontinue, eliminate, make an end of, remove, repeal, retrench, rid, supersede, suppress), scoţian (caledonian, scot, scotchman, scots, scotsman, scottish), sabot (chock, clog, Patten, plough, sabot, shoe, whipping top), whisky scoţian (mountain dew), tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, section, set, slash, slit, snick, style), rãni (bring down, cut, gash, hurt, injure, offend, scathe, stab, sting, wound, wrong), frânã (brake, check, chock, drag, spoke), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), crestãturã (channel, hack, indenture, louver, Nick, notch, score, slash, slot, snick), cresta (Dent, engrail, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, Nick, notch, round, score, slash, snick, stripe, wound), anihila (annihilate, destroy, neutralize), însemnare (chalk, denotation, jotting, memorandum, note, noting, score, scratch, sign, tally), însemna (badge, be, betoken, brand, chalk out, connote, denote, dint, excoriate, imply, import, item, jot down, mark off, mean, note, record, signify, spell, stand, tick). (various references) | |
Russian | ранить (stab, stabs, wound, wounding, wounds), шотландский (caledonian, scots, scottish), клин (chock, cotter, glut, gusset, key, quoin, salience, shim, wedge), виски шотландский, надрезать (incise, snick), надрез (hack, incision, notching, snick). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sprečiti (arrest, avert, balk, baulk, debar, disenable, forestall, head off, hinder, impeach, impede, inhibit, keep from, preclude, prevent), zaseći (cut, incise, indent, notch, scarify, score, snick), ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), ogrepsti (scrape, scratch), klin podmetač, brazgotina (scar), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted), škotski viski, škotski jezik (scots, scottish), škotski (caledonian, scots, scottish), škotlanđanin (caledonian, scotchman, scotsman). (various references) | |
Spanish | whisky escocés, muesca (indent, joggle, mortice, mortise, Nick, notch, score, slot), leva de bloqueo, herir (bruise, cripple, cut up, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, offend, Pierce, pinch, pique, scorch, shoot, smite, spite, strike, touch, wound), herida (bruise, crippling, hurt, injury, sore, stab, wound, wounded), frustrar (baffle, balk, baulk, blight, defeat, foil, frustrate, mock, scupper, thwart, to foil), escocés (plaid, scot, scotchman, scots, scotsman, Scottie, scottish), calzar (block, chock, put on, shoe, underpin, wear, wedge), calza (wedge). (various references) | |
Swedish | skotsk (scots, Scottish). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaralamak (bruise, chafe, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, maul, pip, prick, rasp, wound), yara (bruise, canker, cut, hurt, injury, lesion, raw, sore, trauma, ulcer, wound), viski (whiskey, whisky), takoz koymak (skid), takoz (batten, chock, chump, dowel, nog, skid, sprag, wedge), kesik (broken, cut, disconnected, gash, incision, interrupted, off, slash, slit, snick), iskoçya (north britian, scots), iskoç viskisi (mountain dew), iskoç lehçesi (scots), iskoç (caledonian, scots), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, sting, strain, touch, wound), hafifçe yaralamak, hafif yara, engel olmak (baffle, balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, put off, shackle, thwart), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | клин (chock, cleat, cotter, gusset, nib, quoin, shim, wedge), надрізати (incise), надріз (cutting, gash, notching, snip), знешкоджувати (disarm, neutralize), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rượu uytky Ê-cốt, cái chèn bánh xe, đường kẻ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coccum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Scotch": scotched, scotches, scotching. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Scotch": butterscotch, hopscotch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Scotch": butterscotches, hopscotched, hopscotches, hopscotching. (additional references) | |
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"Scotch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cootch, cotch, Csutcb, Scaachi, scetch, schottky, scooch, scootch, scortch, scotcht, scoth, scotica, skitch, skootch, skutch, snotch, sotk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: cosh, cost, cots, host, hots, scot, shot, soth, tosh. | |
-3 letters: cos, cot, hot, ohs, sot, tho. | |
-4 letters: ho, oh, os, sh, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: succoth. | |
+2 letters: choicest, cockshut, crochets, crotches, scotched, scotches, scrootch. | |
+3 letters: cachalots, cachepots, cacoethes, catechols, catholics, checkouts, chopstick, cockshuts, crotchets, hopscotch, psychotic, ricochets, sackcloth, scotching, scutcheon, stomachic, succotash, trochaics. | |
+4 letters: backcloths, cartouches, catchpoles, catchpolls, catchwords, catholicos, cerecloths, chocolates, chopsticks, chromatics, cirrhotics, cockfights, colocynths, cornstarch, crocheters, crosshatch, crosspatch, escharotic, escutcheon, facecloths, laccoliths, lockstitch, matchlocks, notchbacks, ochlocrats, octarchies, outcatches, outcoaches, psychotics, sackcloths, scholastic, scrootched, scrootches, scutcheons, stagecoach, stochastic, stomachics, tchotchkes, touchbacks, trichocyst, zucchettos. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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