tocher

English

Etymology

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. 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)

1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rochet, rotche, troche

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoxər/

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 […].

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], 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[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.