What does scot mean?

Definitions for scot
skɒtscot

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Scot, Scotsman, Scotchmannoun

    a native or inhabitant of Scotland

Wiktionary

  1. Scotnoun

    A person born in or native to Scotland.

  2. scotnoun

    A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.

  3. Scotnoun

    A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Scott.

  4. Etymology: Scottas, from Scotti.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Scotnoun

    Etymology: êcot, French.

    ’Twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    Protogenes, historians note,
    Liv’d there a burgess, scot and lot. Matthew Prior.

    The chief point that has puzzled the freeholders, as well as those that pay scot and lot, for about these six months, is, whether they would rather be governed by a prince that is obliged by law to be good, or by one who, if he pleases, may plunder or imprison. Addison.

Wikipedia

  1. scot

    A Scot is a member of an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland, derived from the Latin name of Gaelic raiders, the Scoti.

ChatGPT

  1. scot

    Scot generally refers to a payment or tax, particularly in historical or traditional contexts. It often appears in the phrase "scot free", meaning to escape without punishment or harm. Scot can also be used as an abbreviation for Scotland or Scottish.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scotnoun

    a name for a horse

  2. Scotnoun

    a native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman

  3. Scotnoun

    a portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot

  4. Etymology: [Icel. skot; or OF. escot, F. cot, LL. scottum, scotum, from a kindred German word; akin to AS. scot, and E. shot, shoot; cf. AS. scetan to shoot, to contribute. See Shoot, and cf. Shot.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scot

    skot, n. a payment, esp. a customary tax—also Shot.—adj. Scot′-free, free from scot or payment: untaxed: unhurt, safe.—Scot and lot, an old legal phrase embracing all parochial assessments for the poor, the church, lighting, cleansing, and watching. [A.S. scot, sceotscéotan, to shoot.]

  2. Scot

    skot, n. a native of Scotland: one of the Scoti or Scots, a Celtic race who migrated from Ireland—the original Scotia—before the end of the 5th century.—n. Scō′tia, Scotland.—Scots Greys, a famous regiment of dragoons, established in 1683; Scots Guards, the Scottish force which served the kings of France from 1418 down to the battle of Minden (1759), nominally retained, however, down to 1830: a well-known regiment of Guards in the British army, formerly Scots Fusiliers.—Pound Scots, 1s. 8d. [A.S. Scottas, the Scots. Further ety. quite uncertain, whether Gael. sguit, a wanderer, Gr. Skythēs, a Scythian, &c.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. scot

    Anglo-Saxon sceat. A share of anything; a contribution in fair proportion.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'scot' in Nouns Frequency: #2227

Anagrams for scot »

  1. cost

  2. cots

  3. COTS

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scot in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of scot in a Sentence

  1. Mehdi Hasan:

    [Republicans] are blaming Biden for rising gas prices. Meanwhile, guess who gets off scot-free? Not just Putin, but the big oil and gas companies.

  2. Adam Loewy:

    I think that it is further proof that the legal system protects police officers for criminal responsibility no matter what they do, and I believe that this shows that a Black man can be executed, literally in broad daylight, shot in the back of the neck, and a police officer can get off scot-free on a legal technicality.

  3. Fred Guttenberg:

    I have no comment except to say rot in hell, Scot Peterson, fred Guttenberg could have saved some of the 17. Fred Guttenberg could have saved my daughter. Fred Guttenberg did not and then Fred Guttenberg lied about it and Fred Guttenberg deserve the misery coming Fred Guttenberg way.

  4. Sir Arnold Bax:

    A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

  5. Daniel Rose:

    It really is antithetical to most fair-minded people and jurists to allow this old defense to potentially let someone off scot-free.

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