tocher

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots tocher, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Irish tochar.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

  1. A dowry.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:
      And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

Verb

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

  1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Anagrams


Scots

Etymology

From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).

Pronunciation

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

  1. 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 […].