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Scoto-1|ˈskɒtəʊ, ˈskəʊtəʊ| combining form of late L. Scōtus Scot n.1, prefixed (with hyphen) to ethnic adjs. (rarely ns.) either with the sense ‘belonging to Scotland’, as in Scoto-Britannic, Scoto-Celtic, Scoto-English, Scoto-Gaelic, Scoto-Gallic, Scoto-Norwegian, Scoto-Scandinavian adjs., Scoto-Norman n., or with the sense ‘partly Scottish and partly{ddd}’, as in Scoto-Irish adj. Scotoˈphobia2, a morbid dread or dislike of the Scots or things Scottish; hence ˈScotophobe.
1650B. Discolliminium 45 The good man is in such a wofull Scoto-Britannick pickle. 1824G. Chalmers Caledonia III. iii. vi. 253 This Scoto-Irish people. 1828–43Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 249 The Saxons and the Scoto-Normans. 1837Lockhart Scott II. 332 The clergy of the primitive Scoto-Celtic Church. 1846C. Innes Liber de Calchou (Bannatyne Club) Pref. 30 The permanent incorporation of the Scoto-Saxon lowlands with the kingdom of Scotland proper. 1851D. Wilson Archæol. & Preh. Ann. Scot. 490 The subsequent history of the Scoto-Norwegian kingdoms. Ibid. 522 Scoto-Scandinavian relics. 1858–61Ramsay Remin. vi. (1870) 245 Scoto-Gallic words were differently situated. 1867Burton Hist. Scot. I. vii. 261 The Scoto-Irish saints. 1876Smiles Sc. Natur. viii. (ed. 4) 138 Their language is Gaelic, whereas that of the rest of the county [Banffs.] is Scoto-English. 1905Athenæum 7 Oct. 466/1 Most purely Scoto-Gaelic words prefix the article. 1974Listener 25 Apr. 520/3 There is undoubtedly a strong streak of Scotophobia in the English character. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 2 July 823/3 This ‘never ending clan of Macs and Donalds upon Donalds’, as one Scotophobe put it in the 1760s. 1980B. Lenman Jacobite Risings in Britain 289 A glance at the huge correspondence which Sir Everard organized so meticulously for Cumberland is very revealing about the origins of his royal master's sustained Scotophobia. |