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Scots [skɒts] adj (Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) (Placename) of, relating to, or characteristic of Scotland, its people, their English dialects, or their Gaelic language n
(Linguistics / Languages) any of the English dialects spoken or written in Scotland See also Lallans ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Scots adjective Scottish, Caledonian Scots law differs in many respects from English law. Translations Scots adj → schottisch Scots: Scots law n → schottisches Recht Scotsman n → Schotte m Scotswoman n → Schottin f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We have seen French and Spanish galleys no further away than Southampton, but I doubt that it will be some time before the Scots find their way to these parts. He knew there was a vast world outside, to whom Disruption Principles were as the chatter of tree-top apes; the paper brought him chill whiffs from it; he had met Englishmen who had asked lightly if he did not belong to the Church of Scotland, and then had failed to be much interested by his elucidation of that nice point; it was an evil, wild, rebellious world, lying sunk in DOZENEDNESS, for nothing short of a Scots word will paint this Scotsman's feelings. One of the Scots merchants of Moscow happened to be amongst us; and as soon as he heard the horn, he told us that we had nothing to do but to charge them without loss of time; and drawing us up in a line, he asked if we were resolved. |
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