scot-freeadj.

Brit.

/ˌskɒtˈfriː/, U.S.

/ˈskɑtˈfri/

Forms:

α. see scot n.² and free adj.; also 1500s stochfre (probably transmission error).

β. 1500s 1800s– scotchfree, 1600s scotts-free.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: shot-free adj.

Etymology: Apparently an alteration of shot-free adj., after scot n.²The β. forms apparently result from association of the first element with Scot n.¹ and hence the adjectives Scots adj. and Scotch adj. Earlier currency of sense 2 is perhaps implied by the following attestation of the form scotfre in a 13th-cent. copy of a forged charter of Edward the Confessor (probably dating from the early 12th cent.); it is uncertain whether this form simply reflects the spelling of the original Old English word scotfreo shot-free adj., or (as the language has been partially modernized) is a deliberate representation of a form with /sk/ (compare the contrasting treatment of the form schire for Old English scire):a1300 Writ of Edward the Confessor (Sawyer 1120) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 191 Ic wille ðat ðæt cotlif Leosne..liggenon ðiderinne [sc. to Westminster]..mid allen ðare þngen ðat ðarto herð..scotfre and gauelfre, on schire and on hundrede [lOE scotfreo & gafolfreo on scire & on hundrede]. Compare also post-classical Latin quietus de scot, quietus a scot, liber et quietus a scottis free from scot, not required to pay scot (in British sources):a1133 Royal Charter: Henry I to Citizens of London in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 525 Ciues..sint quieti de scot [c1210 Rylands eschot] et de danegildo et de murdre.a1199 in S. A. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (1897) I. 227 Liberam et quietam ab omnibus seruitiis..et omnibus aliis scottis et lottis.1200 in W. H. Hart & P. A. Lyons Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia (1886) II. 88 Insuper etiam quietos eos clamamus..ab omni collectione census quæ geld vel scot vel Danegelde Anglice nominatur.

a. Without being punished; without suffering injury or harm. Chiefly predicative or as complement, esp. in to go (also get off, escape, etc.) scot-free.In origin probably an extended use of sense 2, although first recorded slightly earlier.

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. H1 Is there eny grett differynge Bitwene theft and tythe gaderynge..? Uery litell,..Savynge that theves are corrected, And tythe gaderers go scott fre.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 93 Daniell scaped scotchfree by Gods prouidence.

1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. §4 The Papists,..escaping in the mean while Scot-free.

1666 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 73 Oxford escaped scot fre of the plague.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 34 She should not, for all the Trouble she has cost you, go away scot-free.

1789 Oracle 4 July There is no doubt, from the Major's pointed and logical perseverance, but Mr. Hastings will come off Scot-free.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xi. 227 Do as much for this fellow, and thou shalt pass scot-free.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xiv. 45 The sporting inhabitants thereof preferred the money-griping propensities of a certain Baronet..to the scot-free sport with the frigid civilities of the noble Earl.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. xiii. 215 When some notorious offender has got off scot free.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xvi. 273 This miserable woman has only confessed bairnly faults, and on that he'll ride off scot free.

1954 A. White Beyond Glass i. ii. 25 But that's barbarous! He gets off scot free and she has to be dragged through the mud.

1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant (1983) v. 149 It was so typical: Ezra the golden boy, everybody's favorite, tootling down the streets scot-free.

2000 Dawn (Karachi) 16 Apr. 12/3 The concept of blood money..allows the murderer to go scot free.

†b. Without inflicting harm. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > [adjective] > harmless to health

unviciousc1485

scot-free1652

1652–66 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 25 [They] shooted at him with earnest leuell, and not scotts-free for presently he was tumbled to the earth deadly wounded.

2. Free from scot (in various senses of scot n.²); not required to pay scot; without paying scot. Later more generally: without payment; free of charge. Chiefly predicative or as complement. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [adjective]

shot-freelOE

freea1225

costless1509

scot-free1542

free cost1586

chargeless1599

cost-free1602

gratuitous1656

gratis1659

pro deo1856

comp1875

tariffless1891

uncharged1894

buckshee1915

freebie1937

mahala1977

value-added1982

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca sig. Eiiii Asymbolus, he that commeth to a bankette, without appoyntment, an vnboden gest. also he that gothe scot free, and payeth nothinge.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiii They payed no money, but were set scot free.

1579–80 T. North tr. Tiberius & Caius in Plutarch Lives (1595) 878 Caius..had charged the poore citizens with an annuall rent for the lands..Liuius..did please them by..letting them haue the lands scotfree.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Avoir bouche à Court, to eat and drinke scotfree, to haue budge-a-Court, to be in ordinarie at Court.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 231 The first speaker scapes scot-free.

1734 London Daily Post 27 Nov. It was therefore thought very unjust by the Legislature, that all others be oblig'd to pay, and those Towns go Scot-free.

1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears of St. Margaret (new ed.) 15 Scot-free the Poets drank and ate; They paid no taxes to the State!

1822 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas (rev. ed.) I. iii. ix. 313 We parted. I left the house, in the sweet hope of soon living there scot-free.

1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 405 Pilgriming's dearer than it was: men cannot travel now Scot-free from Dan to Beersheba upon a simple vow.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 133 The people had not been heavily taxed, and the clergy had passed..scot-free.

1921 Internal-revenue Hearings before Comm. on Finance (U.S. Senate, 67th Congr., 1st Sess.) 384 The common laborer does not know that that act [on taxation] was passed. He is scot free at 40 cents an hour.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scot-free
释义	scot-freeadj. Brit. /ˌskɒtˈfriː/, U.S. /ˈskɑtˈfri/ Forms: α. see scot n.² and free adj.; also 1500s stochfre (probably transmission error). β. 1500s 1800s– scotchfree, 1600s scotts-free. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: shot-free adj. Etymology: Apparently an alteration of shot-free adj., after scot n.²The β. forms apparently result from association of the first element with Scot n.¹ and hence the adjectives Scots adj. and Scotch adj. Earlier currency of sense 2 is perhaps implied by the following attestation of the form scotfre in a 13th-cent. copy of a forged charter of Edward the Confessor (probably dating from the early 12th cent.); it is uncertain whether this form simply reflects the spelling of the original Old English word scotfreo shot-free adj., or (as the language has been partially modernized) is a deliberate representation of a form with /sk/ (compare the contrasting treatment of the form schire for Old English scire):a1300 Writ of Edward the Confessor (Sawyer 1120) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 191 Ic wille ðat ðæt cotlif Leosne..liggenon ðiderinne [sc. to Westminster]..mid allen ðare þngen ðat ðarto herð..scotfre and gauelfre, on schire and on hundrede [lOE scotfreo & gafolfreo on scire & on hundrede]. Compare also post-classical Latin quietus de scot, quietus a scot, liber et quietus a scottis free from scot, not required to pay scot (in British sources):a1133 Royal Charter: Henry I to Citizens of London in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 525 Ciues..sint quieti de scot [c1210 Rylands eschot] et de danegildo et de murdre.a1199 in S. A. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (1897) I. 227 Liberam et quietam ab omnibus seruitiis..et omnibus aliis scottis et lottis.1200 in W. H. Hart & P. A. Lyons Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia (1886) II. 88 Insuper etiam quietos eos clamamus..ab omni collectione census quæ geld vel scot vel Danegelde Anglice nominatur. 1. a. Without being punished; without suffering injury or harm. Chiefly predicative or as complement, esp. in to go (also get off, escape, etc.) scot-free.In origin probably an extended use of sense 2, although first recorded slightly earlier. Π 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. H1 Is there eny grett differynge Bitwene theft and tythe gaderynge..? Uery litell,..Savynge that theves are corrected, And tythe gaderers go scott fre. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 93 Daniell scaped scotchfree by Gods prouidence. 1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. §4 The Papists,..escaping in the mean while Scot-free. 1666 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 73 Oxford escaped scot fre of the plague. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 34 She should not, for all the Trouble she has cost you, go away scot-free. 1789 Oracle 4 July There is no doubt, from the Major's pointed and logical perseverance, but Mr. Hastings will come off Scot-free. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xi. 227 Do as much for this fellow, and thou shalt pass scot-free. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xiv. 45 The sporting inhabitants thereof preferred the money-griping propensities of a certain Baronet..to the scot-free sport with the frigid civilities of the noble Earl. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. xiii. 215 When some notorious offender has got off scot free. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xvi. 273 This miserable woman has only confessed bairnly faults, and on that he'll ride off scot free. 1954 A. White Beyond Glass i. ii. 25 But that's barbarous! He gets off scot free and she has to be dragged through the mud. 1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant (1983) v. 149 It was so typical: Ezra the golden boy, everybody's favorite, tootling down the streets scot-free. 2000 Dawn (Karachi) 16 Apr. 12/3 The concept of blood money..allows the murderer to go scot free. †b. Without inflicting harm. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > harmless to health unviciousc1485 scot-free1652 1652–66 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 25 [They] shooted at him with earnest leuell, and not scotts-free for presently he was tumbled to the earth deadly wounded. 2. Free from scot (in various senses of scot n.²); not required to pay scot; without paying scot. Later more generally: without payment; free of charge. Chiefly predicative or as complement. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [adjective] shot-freelOE freea1225 costless1509 scot-free1542 free cost1586 chargeless1599 cost-free1602 gratuitous1656 gratis1659 pro deo1856 comp1875 tariffless1891 uncharged1894 buckshee1915 freebie1937 mahala1977 value-added1982 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca sig. Eiiii Asymbolus, he that commeth to a bankette, without appoyntment, an vnboden gest. also he that gothe scot free, and payeth nothinge. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiii They payed no money, but were set scot free. 1579–80 T. North tr. Tiberius & Caius in Plutarch Lives (1595) 878 Caius..had charged the poore citizens with an annuall rent for the lands..Liuius..did please them by..letting them haue the lands scotfree. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Avoir bouche à Court, to eat and drinke scotfree, to haue budge-a-Court, to be in ordinarie at Court. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 231 The first speaker scapes scot-free. 1734 London Daily Post 27 Nov. It was therefore thought very unjust by the Legislature, that all others be oblig'd to pay, and those Towns go Scot-free. 1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears of St. Margaret (new ed.) 15 Scot-free the Poets drank and ate; They paid no taxes to the State! 1822 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas (rev. ed.) I. iii. ix. 313 We parted. I left the house, in the sweet hope of soon living there scot-free. 1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 405 Pilgriming's dearer than it was: men cannot travel now Scot-free from Dan to Beersheba upon a simple vow. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 133 The people had not been heavily taxed, and the clergy had passed..scot-free. 1921 Internal-revenue Hearings before Comm. on Finance (U.S. Senate, 67th Congr., 1st Sess.) 384 The common laborer does not know that that act [on taxation] was passed. He is scot free at 40 cents an hour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1528
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