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Scotish

Scotish is the obsolete form of Scottish.

Meaning of Scottish

Adjective

Scottish (comparative more Scottish, superlative most Scottish)

  1. Of a thing or concept, of or pertaining to Scotland.
  2. Of a person, native to, born in or whose ancestors originally came from Scotland.
    • In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian

See all 4 meanings of Scottish

Forms of Scotish

comparativemore Scotish
superlativemost Scotish

Origin of Scotish

From Scot + -ish.

Questions about Scotish

What is Scotish the obsolete form of?
Scotish is the obsolete form of Scottish.

Words near Scotish in the dictionary

  1. Scotifies
  2. Scotify
  3. Scotifying
  4. scotino
  5. scotinos
  6. Scotish
  7. Scotism
  8. Scotist
  9. Scotistic
  10. Scotistical
  11. Scotists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Scotish (page history and authors); Scottish (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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