1. Avoiding waste
   "'scotch' is used only informally"
   - economical, frugal, sparing, stinting

1. A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
   - score

1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   - thwart, queer, spoil, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk 
2. Make a small cut or score into

1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language
   "'Scotch' is in disfavour with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' or 'Scotch plaid'"
   - Scots, Scottish

1. Whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still
   - Scotch whiskey, Scotch whisky, malt whiskey, malt whisky, Scotch malt whiskey, Scotch malt whisky, malt

Derived forms: scotches, scotching, Scotches, scotched

See also: Scotland, thrifty

Type of: dent, forbid, foreclose, forestall, incision, mark, nock, preclude, prevent, prick, score, scratch, slit, whiskey [N. Amer, Ireland], whisky

Part of: Rob Roy

Encyclopedia: Scotch

• long-neck clam
• long-play
• long-playing
• long-range
• long-run
• long-shanked
• long-snouted
• long-spurred
• long-spurred violet
• long-stalked
• long-staple
• long-staple cotton
• long-sufferance
• long-suffering
• long-tailed porcupine
• long-tailed weasel
• long-term
• long-term memory
• long-wearing
• long-winded
• long-windedly
• long-windedness
• long-wooled
• longan
• longanberry