- escocher
- (è-sko-ché) v. a.Battre la pâte du biscuit avec la paume de la main, afin de la ramasser en une seule masse.
Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. d'Émile Littré. 1872-1877.
escocher
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scotch — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English scocchen to gash, from Anglo French escocher, eschocher to pierce Date: 15th century 1. archaic cut, gash, score; also wound < we have scotched the snake, not killed it Shakespeare > … New Collegiate Dictionary
scotch — scotch1 /skoch/, v.t. 1. to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil: to scotch a rumor; to scotch a plan. 2. to cut, gash, or score. 3. to injure so as to make harmless. 4. to block or prop with a wedge or chock. n. 5. a cut, gash, or score … Universalium
scotch — [skɔtʃ US ska:tʃ] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Perhaps from Anglo French escocher to make a cut in a surface ] to stop something happening by firmly doing something to prevent it ▪ He issued an announcement to scotch rumours of his death … Dictionary of contemporary English
scotch — (v.) stamp out, crush, 1825, earlier make harmless for a time (1798; a sense that derives from the reading of Macbeth III.ii.13), from scocchen to cut, score, gash (early 15c.), perhaps from Anglo Fr. escocher, O.Fr. cocher to notch, nick, from… … Etymology dictionary
scotch — scotch1 [skäch] vt. [ME scocchen, prob. < Anglo Fr escocher < OFr coche, a notch, nick < VL * cocca, knob at the end of a spindle (later, groove below this knob) < L coccum, berry < Gr kokkos] 1. to cut; scratch; score; notch 2.… … English World dictionary
