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HEUCHTER-TEUCHTER, adj., n., v. I. adj. Of or resembling Highland music etc. (Ags., Edb., Gsw., Ayr. 2000s). (hoochter-teuchter Fif. 2000s). [Reduplic. form of TEUCHTER.] Sc. 1994 Scotland on Sunday 24 Jul :
Speaking for the first time about his programming plans, Tom Hunter, managing director of the venture, firmly put paid to any lingering fears that the new commercial service — owned jointly by Grampian and Border Television — will be heuchter teuchter in outlook or a snazzier version of Radio Scotland.Sc. 1997 Sunday Times 18 May :
There are military and heuchter-teuchter pictures around the walls but, fortunately, out-and-out tartanry is restricted to a couple of bows round the pillars.Sc. 2001 Sunday Herald 19 Aug 29:
Scottish traditional dancing of the heuchter-teuchter variety, is not so much a social skill as a survival course, but should you wish to Strip The Willow, Dash with a White Sergeant, or get together with a Gay Gordon, then there is someone willing and able to show you how.Sc. 2003 Daily Record 2 Jan 25:
As a proud ginger whose orange hue has faded with age (sob), this was so inspirational I had to down a large red cola in celebration — well, I still had all those heuchter teuchter shows to watch.

II. n. An enthusiast for Highland music, etc.Sc. 1999 Herald 29 Mar 16:
Once upon a time, to confess a sneaking love of folk music was equivalent to committing an act of social exclusion. This particular genre of music incurred urbanites' sniggers pivoting around heuchter-teuchters in Aran sweaters supping on real ales and scratching big hairy beards in time to eightsome reels.

III. v. In vbl.n. heuchter-teuchtering , The act of including Highland or Scottish material in (something).Sc. 1994 Sunday Mail 2 Jan 29:
There was an alternative to the heuchter-teuchtering of the two main channels this year.
But even the Channel 4 and BBC2 programme makers couldn't resist adding a wee touch of tartan to their otherwise Scot-free schedules.