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Scotchifying

Scotchifying is the present participle and gerund of Scotchify.

Meaning of Scotchify

Verb

Scotchify (third-person singular simple present Scotchifies, present participle Scotchifying, simple past and past participle Scotchified)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make Scottish; Scottify.
    • It is curious how Scotchmen will Scotchify the names of persons, places, and things, which were originally Scotch.1866, Andrew Halliday Duff, Town and Country, page 256

Questions about Scotchifying

What is Scotchifying the present participle and gerund of?
Scotchifying is the present participle and gerund of Scotchify.

Words near Scotchifying in the dictionary

  1. Scotchgards
  2. Scotchification
  3. Scotchified
  4. Scotchifies
  5. Scotchify
  6. Scotchifying
  7. Scotchiness
  8. scotching
  9. Scotchka
  10. Scotchkas
  11. Scotchman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Scotchifying (page history and authors); Scotchify (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.

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