Scotch mist

English

WOTD – 16 March 2016

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Noun

Morning mist at Whytbank Farm in Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Scotch mist (countable and uncountable, plural Scotch mists)

1. (British) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
2. (British, dialect, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic) Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
3. A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
4. The perennial flowering plant .

Translations

A cold penetrating mist verging on rain

• Estonian: uduvihm
• Finnish: vihma (fi)
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• Maori: tūkōrehu
• Welsh: smwc m, smwclaw m