tocher
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.
Noun[edit]
tocher (plural tochers)
- A dowry.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 121:
- And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.
Verb[edit]
tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)
- (transitive) To supply with a dowry.
Anagrams[edit]
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tocher (plural tochers)
- dowry; trousseau
- 1791, Robert Burns, My Tocher's the Jewel:
- Your proffer o' luve's an airle-penny, / My tocher's the bargain ye wad buy […].
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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