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Scotchman

/ˈskɒt͡ʃmən/noun

Scotchman is a noun meaning “A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-O-T-C-H-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Scotchman is Scotchmen.

What does Scotchman mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA man from Scotland.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA person from Scotland.

  3. 3

    A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Scotchman?

  • /ˈskɒt͡ʃmən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Scotchman

  • Scotchmen plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Scotchman?

Scotchman appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does Scotchman come from?

Inherited from Middle English Scocheman. By surface analysis, Scotch + -man.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).