It is offensive, equivalent to other cultural epithets used by more powerful groups to describe people they have oppressed, but is often seen as amusing by the speaker.
[2][3] The word also shows up as cheuchter, tschooktir, chuchter, teuchtar, chookter but has no universally accepted orthography.
[3] There are three main theories on the etymology of the word: One folk etymology/urban myth is that during the First World War, many members of the Highland regiments were pipers.
A book of sheet music for the pipes is called a "tutor", and when pronounced with the pre-aspiration of Gaelic accents when speaking English, this sounds like "teuchter".
A teuchter is the hero of Scottish musician Bill Hill's The Portree Kid,[5] which parodies the song Ghost Riders in the Sky as "The teuchter that cam frae Skye".