subs. (Colonial).—A florin.
1886. HAGGARD, Jess, x. Jantjé touched his hat, spat upon the ‘SCOTCHMAN,’ as the natives of that part of Africa [Transvaal] call a two-shilling piece, and pocketed it. [Note: Because once upon a time a SCOTCHMAN made a great impression on the simple native mind in Natal by palming off some thousands of florins among them at the nominal value of half-a-crown.]
FLYING SCOTCHMAN, subs. phr. (common).—The daily 2 P.M. express from Euston to Edinburgh and the North. Cf. WILD IRISHMAN.
1885. G. DOLBY, Charles Dickens as I Knew Him, 33. A railway carriage which was being dragged along at the rate of fifty miles an hour by the ‘FLYING SCOTCHMAN.’
THE SCOTCHMAN HUGGING THE CREOLE, phr. (West Indian).—See quot.
1835. M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log, xiv. The SCOTCHMAN HUGGING THE CREOLE; look at that tree…. It was a magnificent cedar … covered over with a curious sort of fret-work, wove by the branches of some strong parasitical plant….
