Anagrams of: SCOTCHING

• (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese

• Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs

• of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language

• whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still

• a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)

• avoiding waste

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• make a small cut or score into

• Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs

• any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip

• a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

• hit with a cosh, usually on the head

• characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

• of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths

• of or relating to the Goths

• extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas

• a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

• a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

• as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened

• characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque

• United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961)