scotch
a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
• Syn:
score
• Derivationally related forms:
score (for: score)
• Hypernyms:
incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent
1. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
- foil your opponent
• Syn:
thwart, queer, spoil, foil, cross,
frustrate, baffle, bilk
• See Also:
double cross (for: cross)
• Derivationally related forms:
frustrative (for: frustrate), frustration (for: frustrate), cross (for: cross), foiling (for: foil), thwarter (for: thwart), thwarting (for: thwart)
• Hypernyms:
prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
• Hyponyms:
disappoint, let down, dash, short-circuit, ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make a small cut or score into
• Hypernyms:
score, nock, mark
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
avoiding waste
- an economical meal
- an economical shopper
- a frugal farmer
- a frugal lunch
- a sparing father and a spending son
- sparing in their use of heat and light
- stinting in bestowing gifts
- thrifty because they remember the great Depression
- 'scotch' is used only informally
• Syn:
economical, frugal, sparing, stinting
• Similar to:
thrifty
• Derivationally related forms:
frugalness (for: frugal), frugality (for: frugal), economy (for: economical)
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
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