Scotch mist

English

WOTD – 16 March 2016

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Noun

Scotch mist (countable and uncountable, plural Scotch mists)

  1. (UK) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
  2. (UK, dialect, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic) Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
    • 1945, Eric H Partridge, “Words Get Their Wings”, in College English‎[1], volume 7, number 1, page 29:
      Scotch mist, the R.A.F. term for something imaginary. […] The joke of it is that Scotch mist is as wetting as English rain.
    1. (World War II) Something imaginary, nonexistent, or overlooked.
  3. A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
  4. The perennial flowering plant Galium sylvaticum.
    Synonym: wood bedstraw

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