improved Scotsman

North, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a half-breed, especially a Scotch half-breed.

Quotations

1934

There were Mounted Police . . . and "Improved Scotsmen" as the mixed bloods were facetiously known.

1938

The Indians had intermarried with Scots for nearly two hundred years and may well be what Skipper Neilson calls them, improved Scotsmen.

1966

Canadians have not been slow to find nicknames for themselves and others. Among them are: Spud Islander . . . improved Scotsman. . . .