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Word: sottish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne prank, split-seconding every sottish or schoolboy joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Recitation in Manhattan | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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