teuchter Sc.
(ˈtjuxtər, ˈtʃu-)
Also teuchtar.
[Origin unknown.]
A Highlander (see also quots. 1962 and 1977).
| 1940 R. Garioch 17 Poems for 6d. 13 Thir a glaikit pair o Teuchters, an as Heilant as a peat. 1962 Scotsman 26 Jan. 11 There is ample evidence that she referred to him as a ‘teuchter’, a word which I understand to mean a country bumpkin. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 1084/2 For the inhabitants of Harris are mainly what most Scots call ‘teuchtars’—a word which I had never heard till I had it applied to me by a teacher in a Glasgow school. What is a teuchtar? It is a Lowland Scots imitation of a Gaelic noise, a term of now genial contempt for a crofter or, more generally, for anyone from beyond the Highland line. 1979 R. Laidlaw Lion is Rampant xviii. 137, I look like the archetypal teuchter, right down to the fur-bearing cheeks. |