tocher
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots tocher, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Irish tochar.
Noun
tocher (plural tochers)
- 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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:
Verb
tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)
- (transitive) To supply with a dowry.
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).
Pronunciation
Noun
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 […].
- 1791, Robert Burns, ‘My Tocher's the Jewel’: