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Scotch
- adjective - a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- make a small cut or score into
- of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; "Scots Gaelic"; "the Scots community in New York"; "`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'"; "`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen ph
Scoter
- noun - large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere
Scotia
- - A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.
Scours
- noun - a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
- Cattle disease. Diarrhoea in pigs.
- clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"
- diarrhea in livestock
- examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive"
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"
Scouse
- noun - a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
Scouts
- noun - a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
Scovel
- - A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.
Scowls
- noun - a facial expression of dislike or displeasure
- frown with displeasure
- grimace
Scrags
- noun - a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
- lean end of the neck
- strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"
- the lean end of a neck of veal
- wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
Scrams
- verb - leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!"