Scotch mist

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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)

  1. (Britain) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
  2. (Britain, dialectal, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic) Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
  3. A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
  4. The perennial flowering plant Galium sylvaticum.

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