scootn.1
/skuːt/, U.S. /skut/, Scottish English /skut/ Scottish.
(See quots.)
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Scout, a syringe.
1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Scoot, 1. A gush or flow of water; also, the pipe or opening from which it flows. Clydes.
1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid iii. iv. 259 Stottin' up the gate like a haw from a callan's gulshock scoot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scootn.2
/skuːt/, U.S. /skut/ dialect or slang.
1. The action or an act of ‘scooting’.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > a swift course
reseOE
careerc1534
whirry1611
whirla1657
with a run1834
rip1855
streaka1861
scoot1864
1864 Morning Star 2 Feb. House-rent, too, as it elegantly expresses it, is on the ‘same scoot upwards’.
1884 F. R. Stockton Lady or Tiger? 95 Ev'ry dog an' man an' nigger made one skoot fur that tree.
2. A bout of drunkenness, a drunken spree; chiefly in on the scoot. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
fuddlea1813
screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
bender1846
bat1848
buster1848
burst1849
soak1851
binge1854
bumming1860
bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Scoot, to clear out; also continued bout of drunkenness.
1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xiv. 131 ‘He's a man who likes his meat raw, he chews his glass when he empties it.’ ‘I'm sorry to hear Eureka is on the scoot.’ ‘He's not. They don't go on the scoot out there. They drink dynamite and bust.’
1959 G. Slatter Gun in my Hand iii. 42 I suppose you left the wife up there [i.e. on the farm] and you're down on the scoot.
1962 S. Gore Down Golden Mile vi. 120 Make mine a glass this time, seein' I have to go on the scoot with you booze artists to-night.
1975 X. Herbert Poor Fellow my Country 1019 We could've..gone on a proper scoot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scootn.3
/skuːt/, U.S. /skut/ slang.
A motorcycle or motor car (see also quot. 1943).
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train running short distance to and fro
shuttle-train1888
trip-train1894
shuttle1895
scoot1943
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun]
bus1881
motor bicycle1894
motorcycle1894
autocycle1895
motorbike1895
bike1903
mo-bike1925
noddy1964
scoot1968
chop1970
chopper1985
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]
buggy1888
motor vehicle1890
motor carriage1894
autocar1895
jam jar1895
motor car1895
car1896
traction1896
motor1899
bubble1901
machine1901
Lizzie1913
buzz-wagon1914
road car1914
short1914
scooter1917
buzz-box1920
ride1930
drag1935
bus1939
wagon1955
wheels1959
sheen1968
low rider1974
scoot1977
1943 Amer. Speech 18 169/1 Scoot, shuttletrain.
1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 ii. 41 Scoot, a motorcycle, the type often used by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club.
1977 Custom Car Nov. 64/1 For this season he's gone over to a radical Volvo-engined scoot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scootv.1
/skuːt/, U.S. /skut/ 1. Scottish.
a. transitive. ‘To eject, jerk, or squirt’ (Jamieson, 1880).
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > squirt liquid [verb (transitive)]
sprout1578
spirt1582
squirt1583
squit1594
spurt1601
spirt1646
jeta1684
scoot1805
squitter1809
skeet1880
spritz1886
skoosh1985
1805 J. Nicol Poems I. 155 (Jam.) An' gut an' ga' he scoutit.
1897 C. Grey Misanthrope's Heir xv Naebody kent he was there till he scootit the water on Maister Ogilvy.
b. intransitive. (See quot. 1880.)
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1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word) To scoot,..to flow or gush out with force. Clydes.
2. Scottish and U.S. To slide suddenly, as on slippery ground.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide
slidderc897
slidea950
slitherc1200
slep?a1400
slithec1450
slivec1450
rutsel1481
slip1530
slipper1585
glibber1598
slur1617
glide1674
slather1809
scoot1838
sluther1854
slade1895
1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches , ‘Pair of Slippers’ (Farmer) Notwithstanding his convulsive efforts to clutch the icy bricks he skuted into the gutter.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xcviii. 475 The enormous casks..scoot across the slippery decks, like so many land slides.
3. slang or colloquial.
a. To go suddenly and swiftly, to dart; to go away hurriedly. Often with adverbs.The (? originally nautical) slang word, written scout and probably pronounced /skaʊt/, seems to have become obsolete early in the 19th cent. The modern scoot was apparently imported into general British use from the U.S.
/skaʊt/, seems to have become obsolete early in the 19th cent. The modern scoot was apparently imported into general British use from the U.S.ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > speedily
rakeOE
rekec1275
raikc1390
richc1400
freck1513
to hie it1620
whidc1730
scoot1758
spank1807
kilt1816
nip1825
slip1864
breeze1907
bomb1966
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly
windc897
shootc1000
smite?c1225
flatc1300
lash13..
girda1400
shock?a1400
spara1400
spritc1400
whipc1440
skrim1487
glance1489
spang1513
whip1540
squirt1570
flirt1582
fly1590
sprunt1601
flame1633
darta1640
strike1639
jump1720
skite1721
scoot1758
jink1789
arrow1827
twitch1836
skive1854
sprint1899
skyhoot1901
catapult1928
slingshot1969
book1977
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1758 Capt. Tyrrell Let. 9 Nov. in Ann. Reg. 1759 (1760) 61 The largest frigate being troublesome, I gave him a few of my lower deck pills and sate [= set] him a scouting like a lusty fellow, and he never returned to the action again.
1780 Capt. Young Let. 3 June in Barham Papers (MS.) They had rigged out the fore topmast studding-sail booms to scout for it.
1805 J. Nicol Poems II. 103 (Jam.) Wi' arm raxt out, awa' she scouted.
1810 Splendid Follies II. 28 Sponge was actually obliged to scout out of the room to conceal his risible muscles.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 16 An' th' Cunnles, tu, could..send the insines skootin' to the bar-room with their banners.
1856 Knickerbocker Mar. (Bartlett 1860) When he goes skewtin about, buying goods in business hours.
1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 30 Ye'd better drop that axe and scoot round getten' this stranger some breakfast.
1892 Sat. Rev. 27 Feb. 244/1 He scoots off like a rabbit in the opposite direction.
1897 O. Schreiner Trooper P. Halket 66 A nigger man met them twenty miles off, and he said they were skooting up for Lo-Magundi's country as fast as they could go.
1904 J. Sweeney At Scotland Yard xiii. 339 Forster always got wind of the warrant's being drawn out and..conveniently scooted.
b. transitive. To move or convey suddenly or swiftly.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > rapidly
whirlc1386
rush1554
whisk1694
scoot1905
1905 Automobile Topics 27 May 462 Basle's engine had all the power necessary to scoot him up the hill on his fourth speed.
1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus ii. 22 Juan put his little platform behind the bus and he lay on it on his back and scooted himself under with his feet.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 22/1 Larush scooted his charge to the front from the outset to reach the quarter pole in a swift 0:30 2–5.
1975 N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? vi. 35 She scooted her wheelchair across the room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scootv.2
/skuːt/, U.S. /skut/ intransitive. = scooter v.
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society > travel > transport > motorcycling > [verb (intransitive)] > ride on motor scooter
scoot1951
scooter1957
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [verb (transitive)] > travel by scooter
scoot1951
1951 N. Mitford Blessing i. vii. 72 The happy crowd of scooting, skating children in the Tuileries gardens.
1962 A. Huxley Island ix. 140 ‘Scooters are going to become a major political issue.’ Vijaya laughed. ‘To scoot or not to scoot, that is the question.’..‘Wherever I've been..they've opted wholeheartedly for scooting.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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