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Originally Posted by DNSB
Actually, scotchman is correct but it's an old variant of scotsman or scot and can be considered insulting today. Does the dictionary you were looking at also mention the nautical use for scotchman?
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Actually I did not look it up - it's just something we are aware of here in the UK.
Whilst you are correct in saying that it an historical name for Scots it really should not be used these days. Having lived in Scotland for a while I can assure they get extremely offended if you refer to them as Scotchmen.
I checked on scotchman and found the nautical reference you mentioned. So perhaps scotchman should be included for that reason, but the Google dictionary had it listed as:
Scotchman
Scotchmen
Scotchwoman
Scotchwomen
So I assume it is referring to the race and not the nautical use.