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Scots

Scots \Scots\, a. [For older Scottis Scottish. See Scottish.] Of or pertaining to the Scotch; Scotch; Scottish; as, Scots law; a pound Scots (1s. 8d.).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Scots

see Scotch (adj.).

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Scots may refer to:

  • The Scottish people, those whose origin is in Scotland
  • The Scots language, spoken in Lowlands of Scotland (also known as "Lowland Scots" to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic)
  • Scotch-Irish
  • Scottish English
  • Scots pine, a conifer tree named after Scotland
  • Short for Pound Scots
  • For the Scots, an ethnic group of the late Iron age, the historical people of Dalriada, a Gaelic-speaking kingdom in northeastern Ireland and western Scotland, see Gaels and Scoti
  • Scots' Church, Melbourne
  • The Scots College (TSC or Scots), a private school in Sydney, Australia
  • Scot's Lo-Cost, a warehouse type Grocery store owned by Weis markets

SCOTS may refer to:

  • The abbreviated term for the Battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, a linguistic resource
  • Southern Culture on the Skids, an American music group

Usage examples of "scots".

Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory!

The English say, he was born in Northumberland: the Scots alledge he was born at Duns, in the Mers, the neighbouring county to Northumberland, and hence was called Dunscotus.

Angles and Saxons did likewise, and before them Picts and Scots, and before them the Romans, and before them Brythons and Goidels, and before thembut the tale is long and long, nor will it end with the Danes.

Grandsire was a Cameronian in Scotland in the Killing Times and had long gone where good Scots go when me father come across the sea to Pennsylvania.

He named his place Cranshaw, which he understood to be a Scots name for something or other.

Northumbria had always been a bone of contention amongst the warring powers, wedged as it was between the Saxon kingdom to the south and the lands of the Scots, Cumbrians and Strathclyde Welsh to the north and northwest.

He came fresh from romantic Dauphine, and he cherished romantic dreams concerning the Queen of Scots.

Whether Scots tenacity could outlast English hunger and disgruntlement remained to be seen.

Though, indeed, it is different in Kirkcudbright and Wigtown, where they are Galwegians, and their tongue is scarce understood by the border Scots.

The Glaswegian accent that surfaced only under stress was thick enough now to defy understanding by most of the crew aboard the Enterprise, and even some of the other native Scots were probably having trouble.

In the end they reached Gothenburg, where a noted merchant of the place, who had a Scots name, but whose family had been Swedish for three centuries, assisted them to a change in their mode of life.

Scots scream going into battle before, but that particular Highland shriek made the hairs on my body prickle from tailbone to nape.

Swede, a third-generation Ukrainian, and a third-generation Hutzul, with some Irish, English, Scots, Cherokee, and German thrown in for leavening.

Lacked enough Scots blood in him to wet the feet of a Dumferlein flea, kilties and claymore or no, which is why.

They were all down: the Liverpudlians, the Geordies, the Birmingham boys, even the fucking Scots.