Word.ws English Dictionary

Scotch blue

Scotch blue noun: a dark shade of blue-magenta.

Noun

Scotch blue (uncountable)

  1. A dark shade of blue-magenta.

Adjective

Scotch blue (not comparable)

  1. Of a dark shade of blue-magenta.
    • But there was no mistaking those eyes of hers, Scotch blue and uncompromisingly direct in their gaze.1919, B.M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rim o' the World

Questions about Scotch blue

What does Scotch blue mean?
Scotch blue means a dark shade of blue-magenta.
What part of speech is Scotch blue?
Scotch blue can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near Scotch blue in the dictionary

  1. Scotch attorney
  2. Scotch Baptist
  3. Scotch Baptists
  4. Scotch barley
  5. Scotch barleys
  6. Scotch blue
  7. Scotch boiler
  8. Scotch boilers
  9. Scotch bonnet
  10. Scotch bonnet pepper
  11. Scotch bonnet peppers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Scotch blue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Scotch blue.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scotch_blue. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.