English

Scotchwoman

From Scotch + woman.

A compound of Scotch + woman

Old French coche ‘notch’

Middle English scocchen ‘to cut’

English Scotch

Old English wīfmann

Middle English womman ‘a female adult person’

English woman

Today it means

noun A woman from Scotland.

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