scoty.html - {adj. phr.} Without punishment; completely free. * /In spite of his obvious guilt, the jury acquitted him and he got off scot-free./

scoty.html - {n.} A thick barley soup with vegetables and mutton or beef. * /Mother cooked a hearty scotch broth for dinner./

scoty.html - See: GREAT GODFREY or GREAT SCOTT.

scoty.html - n.
1 a a native of Scotland. b a person of Scottish descent.
2 hist. a member of a Gaelic people that migrated from Ireland to Scotland around the 6th c. [OE Scottas (pl.) f. LL Scottus]

scoty.html - n.
hist. a payment corresponding to a modern tax, rate, etc.

pay scot and lot share the financial burdens of a borough etc. (and so be allowed to vote). scot-free unharmed; unpunished; safe. [ME f. ON skot & f. OF escot, of Gmc orig.: cf. SHOT(1)]

scoty.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

var. of SCOTTISH or SCOTS.

--n.

1 var. of SCOTTISH or SCOTS.
2 Scotch whisky.

Scotch broth a soup made from beef or mutton with pearl barley etc. Scotch cap = BONNET n. 1b. Scotch catch Mus. a short note on the beat followed by a long one. Scotch egg a hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage meat and fried. Scotch fir (or pine) a pine tree, Pinus sylvestris, native to Europe and Asia. Scotch kale a variety of kale with purplish leaves. Scotch mist 1 a thick drizzly mist common in the Highlands.
2 a retort made to a person implying that he or she has imagined or failed to understand something. Scotch pebble agate, jasper, cairngorm, etc., found in Scotland. Scotch pine = Scotch fir. Scotch snap = Scotch catch. Scotch terrier 1 a small terrier of a rough-haired short-legged breed.
2 this breed. Scotch whisky whisky distilled in Scotland, esp. from malted barley.

Scots or Scottish is generally preferred in Scotland, except in the special compounds given above. [contr. of SCOTTISH]