scout

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /skaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /skʌʊt/

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• Homophone: Scout
• Rhymes: -aʊt

From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultare (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.[1]

scout (plural scouts)

1. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
2. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
   • Cowper

     while the rat is on the scout

3. A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
4. A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
   • 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian‎:

     We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.

5. (Britain) A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.
6. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
7. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
8. (informal) Term of address for a man or boy.
   • 1983, Robley Wilson, Dancing for men (page 124)

     "Listen, old scout," Mr. Osborn said solemnly, "you think New York is heartless, but that's not what it is."

• scoutess
• scouthouse
• scoutmaster
• talent scout

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
2. (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Take more men, and scout him round.

• scout about
• scout around
• scout out
• scout round
• scout up

Of Scandinavian origin. Compare Old Norse skúta, skúti (“taunt”); thus may be related to English shout.

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (transitive) To reject with contempt.

   to scout an idea or an apology

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2

     Flout 'em and scout 'em; and scout 'em and flout 'em: / Thought is free.

   • Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

     I don't think I had any definite idea where Dora came from, or in what degree she was related to a higher order of beings; but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt.

2. (intransitive) To scoff.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 45

     So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.

Icelandic skta (“a small craft or cutter”)?

scout (plural scouts)

1. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
   • Samuel Pepys

     So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.

Icelandic [Term?], meaning "to jut out".

scout (plural scouts)

1. (archaic) A projecting rock.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.

scout (plural scouts)

1. The guillemot.

• Scout (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scout in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• scout in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scout in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• scout at OneLook Dictionary Search

Borrowed from English scout.

• IPA^(key): /skɑu̯t/
• Hyphenation: scout
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

scout m (plural scouts)

1. A scout, a boy scout or girl scout.

   Synonym: padvinder

2. (sports) A talent scout.

• scouting

scout m (plural scouts)

1. scout, boy scout

Clipping of boyscout.

• IPA^(key): /skau̯t/, [s̪käu̯t̪]

scout m or f (invariable)

1. scout (a member of the international scout movement)

   Synonym: esploratore

scout m (plural scouts)

1. scout

scout c

1. scout; a member of the international scout movement.