Scotch mist
English
WOTD – 16 March 2016
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Noun
Morning mist at Whytbank Farm in Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Scotch mist (countable and uncountable, plural Scotch mists)
- (Britain) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
- (Britain, dialect, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic) Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
- A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
- The perennial flowering plant Galium sylvaticum.
Synonyms
- (Galium sylvaticum): wood bedstraw
Translations
A cold penetrating mist verging on rain
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Galium sylvaticum
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