1650 B. Discolliminium 45The good man is in such a wofull Scoto-Britannick pickle.
1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. iii. vi. 253This Scoto-Irish people.
1828–43 Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 249The Saxons and the Scoto-Normans.
1837 Lockhart Scott II. 332The clergy of the primitive Scoto-Celtic Church.
1846 C. Innes Liber de Calchou (Bannatyne Club)Pref. 30The permanent incorporation of the Scoto-Saxon lowlands with the kingdom of Scotland proper.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. &Preh. Ann. Scot. 490The subsequent history of the Scoto-Norwegian kingdoms.
Ibid. 522Scoto-Scandinavian relics.
1858–61 Ramsay Remin. vi. (1870) 245Scoto-Gallic words were differently situated.
1867 Burton Hist. Scot. I. vii. 261The Scoto-Irish saints.
1876 Smiles Sc. Natur. viii. (ed. 4) 138Their language is Gaelic, whereas that of the rest of the county is Scoto-English. [ Banffs.]
1905 Athenæum 7 Oct. 466/1 Most purely Scoto-Gaelic words prefix the article.
1974 Listener 25 Apr. 520/3 There is undoubtedly a strong streak of Scotophobia in the English character.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 July 823/3This ‘never ending clan of Macs and Donalds upon Donalds’, as one Scotophobe put it in the 1760s.
1980 B. Lenman Jacobite Risings in Britain 289A 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.
1
ORIGIN: from Scot noun 1 + -o- .
2
ORIGIN: from Greek skotos darkness: see -o- .
Scoto-Scotto-
Prefix
- Scotland
Derived terms
English words prefixed with Scoto-