scot

IPA: skˈɑt

Root Word: Scot

A person born in or native to Scotland.
A surname
A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Scott.
(UK, historical) A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.

Examples of "scot" in Sentences

| Reply scot is definitely useless as a spelling bee
Just because he apologized doesn't mean he should get away scot free. jim
I have been robbed at gunpoint only to watch the assailants walk away scot-free.
That is not a reason to let me off scot free literally, since "scot" was a Scandinavian word for "tax".
“You'd wear the red marks on your neck quite proudly in your humble coffin, while folks glare at me, and curse to themselves that I got off go scot free.”
How about the story Rahm Emmanuel, architect and Clintonite of the last election, knew of the Foley memos but got away 'scot' free when he said he hadn't read them?
In vast rolling tundra of a document the great man has discovered ‘90 references to Scotland and Scottish (excluding the footnotes) in around 3,600 words - let's say one 'scot' per 40 words.
It's not clear to me from this book whether cook and the variant scot, meaning place, and keag, auk, and the variants sett and ic, also meaning place, are different words or the same word in different dialects.
Sen. Dole would be much better off spending his energies calling the "miserable creatures" that are the current Republican leadership on the carpet for the disservice that have done this country – the one they all swore they would unswervingly serve. scot is for Obama now