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SCOTTICISM

Definition: SCOTTICISM

SCOTTICISM

Noun

1. An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCOTTICISM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms within Context: SCOTTICISM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Neologism

Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SCOTTICISM

English words defined with "SCOTTICISM": Able for. (references)

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Modern Translations: SCOTTICISM

Language Translations for "SCOTTICISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

skocizëm. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

خسیسی , اداب وخصوصیات اسکاتلندی . (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

skóticizmus. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Albinaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otticismscay

   

Russian 

  

шотландское слово. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

skoticizam. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iskoçya'ya özgü telaffuz, iskoç deyimi. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

từ ngữ đặc Ê-cốt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SCOTTICISM"

Words rhyming with "SCOTTICISM" (pronounced 'Scot"ti*cism'): Academicism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Anatocism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Astaticism, Athleticism, Atomicism, Atticism, Autoecism, Biblicism, Briticism, Catholicism, Celticism, Citicism, Civicism, Classicism, Creticism, Criticism, Cynicism, Demoniacism, Didacticism, Dioecism, Doricism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Eleaticism, Electicism, Empiricism, Eroticism, Esotericism, Etacism, Ethnicism, Evangelicism, Exorcism, Exoticism, Fanaticism, Fantasticism, Gallicism, Gnosticism, Gothicism, Grammaticism, Grecism, Hispanicism, Histrionicism, Hypercriticism, Hypochondriacism, Iotacism, Iricism, Itacism, Italicism, laconicism, lambdacism, Lexiphanicism, lyricism, Metacism, Metempiricism, monasticism, Monoecism, Mutacism, Mysticism, Mytacism, Neocriticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Organicism, ostracism, Peripateticism, Phallicism, Physicism, Polsyntheticism, Polysyllabicism, Prosaicism, Rhotacism, romanticism, Rotacism, scholasticism, Seraphicism, Sinicism, skepticism, solecism, stoicism, Suicism, Syriacism, Teutonicism, Turcism, Witticism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCOTTICISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-m-o-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: stoicism.

-3 letters: cosmist, miotics, mitosis, mitotic, sitcoms, somitic, tictocs.

-4 letters: ciscos, comics, cosmic, miosis, miotic, osmics, otitic, otitis, sitcom, stoics, tictoc.

-5 letters: cisco, cists, comic, costs, ictic, misos, mists, mitis, mitts, moist, mosts, motts, omits, osmic, scots, stoic, titis, toits.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-m-o-s-s-t-t"
 

+4 letters: constructivism.

 

+5 letters: constructivisms, cytochemistries, misconstruction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCOTTICISM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 4F 54 54 49 43 49 53 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ---    -    -    ..    -.-.    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01001111 01010100 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#79 &#84 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 004F 0054 0054 0049 0043 0049 0053 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53374954544337435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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