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English
Etymology
From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.
Noun
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
tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)
- (transitive) To supply with a dowry.
Anagrams
Scots
Pronunciation
Noun
tocher (plural tochers)
- dowry; trousseau
References
- “tocher, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “tocher, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.