scotchy
adjective
scotchy is an adjective meaning “Resembling or characteristic of Scotch whisky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-O-T-C-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does scotchy mean?
adjective
- 1
Resembling or characteristic of Scotch whisky.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of scotchy
- more scotchy comparative
- most scotchy superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is scotchy?
Scotchy appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 scotchy come from?
From Scotch + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).