Definition of Scotch

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Scotch

Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.

Collectively, the people of Scotland.

To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

A slight cut or incision; a score.

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Scotch Quotations

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
William Faulkner

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
Ron White

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
Joe E. Lewis

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Humphrey Bogart

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Robertson Davies

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
Goldwin Smith

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
Bill Bruford

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
Donald Sutherland

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
Wilfrid Laurier

Scotch Translations

scotch in German is schottisch
Scotch in Swedish is skotsk

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