sutchkin
Scots
Alternative forms
- søskin
- sötskin
- sutshkin
Etymology
From Old Norse systkin (“siblings”). Compare Danish søskende, Faroese, Icelandic systkin, Norwegian Bokmål søsken and Swedish syskon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsøtʃkɪn/
Noun
sutchkin (plural sutchkins)
- (Shetland) sibling (brother and sister)
- 1952, John J. Hunter, Taen wi da Trow, page 211:
- He wis just laek his sutchkins.
- He was just like his siblings.
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- (Shetland) cousins, near relatives in general
Further reading
- “sutchkin” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- "sutshkin" in John J Graham's Shetland Dictionary