Scotchificationn.
/ˌskɒtʃᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌskɑtʃəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of making Scottish in character; Scotticization; an instance of this. Cf. Scottification n.
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Scottification1830
Scotchification1832
1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 501 [It] is only a Scotchification of a well-known Spanish proverb.
1891 Daily News 19 Jan. 5/6 The ‘Scotchification of Essex’—we use the local expression... It is all owing to Scotch agriculturists taking a fancy for Essex farms.
1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying iii. 50 The prevalence of such names nowadays is merely a part of the Scotchification of England that has been going on these last fifty years.
1981 R. Travers Austral. Mandarin iii. 33 This Scotchification of the boy from Hsin-ning made him a ‘character’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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