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Webster 1913 Edition
Tocher
Toch′er
,Noun.
[Gael.
tochradh
.] Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
[Scot.]
Burns.
Definition 2024
tocher
tocher
English
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:
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoxər/
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’: