Crossword clues for scotsman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scotsman \Scots"man\ (-man), n. See Scotchman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Scots + man (n.).
Wikipedia
Scotsman may mean:
- a man from Scotland, in common parlance (Scotswoman is the equivalent for a woman) - see also Scottish people.
- No true Scotsman, a common logical fallacy.
- The Scotsman, a national newspaper based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland (formally the offices of The Scotsman)
- SCOTSMAN, a mnemonic used by salespeople to qualify opportunities (Solution, Competition, Originality, Timescales, Size, Money, Authority, Need)
- The Scotsman, the name of a character in the cartoon Samurai Jack
- "The Scotsman," a novelty song written by Mike Cross, featured on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection album.
- Studebaker Scotsman, an American economy car from the 1950s
Usage examples of "scotsman".
The Scotsman Gordon and the Genevese Lefort were at the head of his army and navy.
Up to now, the cloistered little Scotsman had known a horizon delimited by Kincardineshire and Bristol.
Only death will part me from my husband, not muttonheaded, well-meaning, misguided Englishmen or Scotsmen or stubborn Spanish sea captains!
And, she reminded herself, he had much to lose if authority over Treymoor was transferred, either to the devil Scotsman or to that wastrel Nicholas Vallance, should he return from his refuge in France and assuming he was still alive.
There were acrobats and kilted Scotsmen, ballerinas, togaed Romans and half-naked harem girls.
John McCabe was a strapping Scotsman with arms like cabers and a look that would frighten even the fiercest dog.
His sergeant had brought a score of men into the passageway and those Scotsmen began to fire up at the walls, and the Cobras were crumbling now because there were redcoats below them on both sides, and more were hacking their way along the rampart, and the defenders were pinned in a small place with nowhere to go.
Which did not matter by itself, for Hakeswill did not like McCandless either, but the Scotsman was a colonel and, as Major Stokes had intimated, when colonels demand, other men obey.
A squad of Scotsmen unbarred the big inner gate, then the outer one, to let even more redcoats into the fort that had fallen so quickly.
The first men scrambled over the makeshift breach blown by the big guns, while others hauled aside a cart that blocked an alleyway and, with that entrance opened, a twin stream of Scotsmen and sepoys hurried into the village.
The Scotsmen found the gunners who had stayed at their posts crouching under the trails and they dragged them out and bayoneted them again and again.
It wad take mair than a cauld wind tae kill a Scotsman the likes o' this one.
Sherlock Holmes, who was in his most genial mood, lent an attentive ear to the Scotland Yard man's account of a gang of French coiners whose operations were actually threatening the stability of the louis d'or, and thereafter proceeded to bemuse the Scotsman with a highly ingenious theory as to the effects of runic lore upon the development of the highland clans.
Immediately after came a servant with a tray, and the Scotsman was soon astonished, not only at the buxomness of his appetite, but at the deftness with which he carved and handled things with what he called his "tiger.
He pointed at the Scotsman, who stood and gestured toward a large tactical map of Texas and Coahuila that had been nailed to the wall.