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tocher

tocher noun: a dowry.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

  1. A dowry.
    • And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 121

Verb

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

  1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Forms of tocher

Noun
pluraltochers
Verb
third-person singular presenttochers
present participletochering
past participletochered
pasttochered

Origin of tocher

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

Words formed from tocher

Questions about tocher

What does tocher mean?
Tocher means a dowry.
What part of speech is tocher?
Tocher can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of tocher?
The plural of tocher is tochers.

Words near tocher in the dictionary

  1. Tocharianists
  2. Tocharians
  3. Tocharic
  4. Tocharish
  5. Tocharistan
  6. tocher
  7. tochered
  8. tochering
  9. tocherless
  10. tochers
  11. toches

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