different between tocher vs toccer

English

Etymology

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. A dowry.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:

     And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

Verb

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rochet, rotche, troche

Scots

Etymology

From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tox?r/

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. dowry; trousseau
   • 1791, Robert Burns, ‘My Tocher's the Jewel’:

     Your proffer o' luve's an airle-penny, / My tocher's the bargain ye wad buy […].

English

Etymology

Blend of tennis +? soccer

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?k.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?k.?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

toccer (uncountable)

1. A sport in which two teams of eight players contend to get a ball resembling a tennis ball into the other team's goal, defended by a player with a racquet.

Synonyms

• tennis polo

Anagrams

• recoct