Boy Scoutn.

Brit.

/ˌbɔɪ ˈskaʊt/, U.S.

/ˈbɔɪ ˌskaʊt/

Forms: also with lower-case initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: boy n.¹, scout n.⁴

Etymology: < boy n.¹ + scout n.⁴

1. A member of a youth organization (known in the United Kingdom as the Scout Association and in the United States as Boy Scouts of America) founded for boys in 1908 by Lord Baden-Powell, intended to develop character esp. by open-air activities. Also (in plural) the organization itself.The term ‘Boy’ was officially omitted from the title of the U.K. organization, which since 1990 has admitted girls. The fuller form remains common in popular usage.Cf. Cub Scout at cub n.¹ 2c, Girl Scout n., sea scout n. at sea n. Compounds 6a, Venture Scout n. at venture n. Compounds, etc. Also cf. Girl Guide n.

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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides

Boy Scout1908

patrol leader1908

scout1908

scoutmaster1908

tenderfoot1908

captain1909

Girl Guide1909

Girl Scout1909

lieutenant1909

pathfinder1911

sea scout1911

rosebud1914

brownie1916

sixer1916

tenderpad1916

Brown Owl1918

rover1918

Rover Scout1918

ranger1920

tawny owl1921

Cub1922

Akela1924

scouter1930

Guider1931

den mother1936

Queen's Guide1946

Queen's Scout1952

Venture Scout1966

Beaver1975

skipper1986

1908 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys 3 We had an example of how useful Boy Scouts can be on active service, when a corps of boys was formed in the defence of Mafeking.]

1908 Scout 18 Apr. 1 Although the Boy Scouts have only been set going within the last two months, they are rapidly increasing all over the country.

1909 Daily Mail 6 Sept. The following message from the King was read at Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell's review of the Boy Scouts at the Crystal Palace on Saturday... ‘The King is glad to know that the Boy Scouts are holding their first annual parade. Please assure the boys that [etc.]’.

1909 B. W. Henderson in Times 21 Sept. At Oxford we have seen the number of Boy Scouts rise from 30 to 300 in nine months, and there are no scouts, I believe, outside the organization.

1910 ‘Scoutmaster’ Boy Scout i. 1 General Sir Robert S. Baden-Powell, the founder of the Movement, recognised this when he first propounded his scheme for boy scouts... The Movement was started less than three years ago.

1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 488/2 The flowering of such intermediate activities as the nursery school, the afternoon play-class, the boy scouts, the summer camp and the dude ranch.

1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. ii. 151 At the Abbey. 7.30 p.m. Boy scouts enjoying themselves helping distressed aristocrats, getting their cars for them, etc., and always saluting.

1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) xxi. 175 When..some Boy Scouts rushed in to administer first aid to him he shoved them off.

1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) ii. v. 87 Eleven years old, a Boy Scout for two months (after which I quit: too much marching and knot-tying).

2002 BusinessWeek 22 July 8/4 When I was a Boy Scout and we laid twigs..to direct people to water.

2. A person who resembles a Boy Scout, esp. as regards his or her honesty, helpfulness, or supposed inexperience.

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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help

redeeOE

helpc893

bootOE

friendOE

lithc1275

helpera1300

a helping handa1300

helpingc1330

bieldc1352

succour?a1366

supplementc1384

easementa1398

succourer1442

aid?1473

assister1535

assistant?1541

adminicle1551

mystery1581

second1590

auxiliatory1599

subsidium1640

suffragan1644

facilitation1648

adminiculary1652

auxiliary1656

auxiliar1670

ally1794

Boy Scout1918

assist1954

facilitator1987

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people

greenhead1576

unexperienced1622

green man1635

greenhorn1672

amateur1767

green1824

greeny1834

Hoosier1846

shavetail1846

Boy Scout1918

nig-nog1953

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun] > person or thing > person

truelOE

true mana1225

trusty1570

warrant1832

sea-green incorruptible1837

Honest John1855

Boy Scout1918

straight arrow1969

1918 I. S. Cobb Glory of Coming p. xiii The Poilus called our soldiers ‘Boy Scouts’ and spoke of our effort as ‘The Second Children's Crusade’.

1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 60 The noncoms (who for weeks had been calling us ‘Boy Scouts’) hung a blue ribbon on the bulletin board.

1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 22 Boy scout, an immature male.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 267 Boy scout,..a traffic policeman who spends much of his time in helping motorists with flat tires, stalled cars, empty gas tanks, and so on.

1965 ‘A. Nicol’ Truly Married Woman 84 Bandele had said, threateningly, that he had better not mention his name, but he could go and be a Boy Scout on his own.

1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe iii. 57 It was Mark's idea. Mark's absolutely the Boy Scout.

2002 Mirror 18 Mar. 8/3 A new war is being plotted against Iraq and, while most of Europe is nervous, the boy scout in No 10 is ready and willing once more.

Compounds

attributive, appositive, etc.

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1909 Daily Chron. 9 July 8/2 The youth of the three kingdoms of the boy scout movement.

1914 W. Owen Let. 1 June (1967) 257 Certain of my Boy-Scout acquaintance.

1936 W. R. F. Collis Silver Fleece v. xvi. 266 Above all he hated..the ‘boy scout’ mentality, the modern tendency to march about in mobs, wearing coloured shirts, shouting, and beating up anybody who doesn't shout with you.

1950 ‘E. Crispin’ Frequent Hearses iv. 198 ‘What about the knife?’ ‘An oversized boy-scout affair..ground razor~sharp.’

1967 J. Porter Chinks in Curtain v. 53 All right, chum, and what would you have done? Given the Boy Scout salute?

1978 S. Brill Teamsters ii. 43 His father was a teetotaler, a boy-scout husband who came home every night.

2001 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. a12/5 There are 123,935 Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs, with 3.4 million young people involved.

Derivatives

(Frequently with pejorative connotations.)

ˌBoy ˈScoutery n. = Boy Scoutism n.; (also) an instance of this.

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1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering v. ii. 254 He never got us under canvas it is true—we were not the most promising material for Ezra's boyscoutery.

1967 E. Grierson Crime of one's Own xi. 96 You must be mad... You've had that look about you ever since you started this boy-scoutery.

1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 111/2 Having watched the Yugoslav tragedy unfold on the ground, Floquet and Coq write bitterly of Louchner's ‘boy-scouteries’.

ˌBoy ˈScoutism n. the activity or attitude of a Boy Scout; also figurative.

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1928 Cent. Mag. May 65/2 Boy Scoutism waxes, and Old Scoutism wanes.

1963 J. Vaizey Educ. in Class Society 6 These and other [travel and cultural] schemes..would..tend to counterbalance people's enthusiasm for the Boy Scoutism of the Duke of Edinburgh's award.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 May 17/1 Saint-Exupéry suffers from regular charges of ‘Boy Scoutism’ and the Little Prince often enough gets compared to Tintin, the comic-book hero.

ˌBoy ˈScoutish adj. characteristic of a Boy Scout.

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1933 School Rev. 41 796 There is something a little ‘camp-fire-girlish’ and ‘boy-scoutish’ about such devices.

1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xiv. 84 Calling me ‘boy-scoutish’ which he knew would hit me where it hurt.

1997 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 25/1 Explaining attendance at Music Camp, members have found themselves protesting that it is neither boy-scoutish nor full of Hi-De-Hi jollity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	boy scout
释义	Boy Scoutn. Brit. /ˌbɔɪ ˈskaʊt/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪ ˌskaʊt/ Forms: also with lower-case initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: boy n.¹, scout n.⁴ Etymology: < boy n.¹ + scout n.⁴ 1. A member of a youth organization (known in the United Kingdom as the Scout Association and in the United States as Boy Scouts of America) founded for boys in 1908 by Lord Baden-Powell, intended to develop character esp. by open-air activities. Also (in plural) the organization itself.The term ‘Boy’ was officially omitted from the title of the U.K. organization, which since 1990 has admitted girls. The fuller form remains common in popular usage.Cf. Cub Scout at cub n.¹ 2c, Girl Scout n., sea scout n. at sea n. Compounds 6a, Venture Scout n. at venture n. Compounds, etc. Also cf. Girl Guide n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides Boy Scout1908 patrol leader1908 scout1908 scoutmaster1908 tenderfoot1908 captain1909 Girl Guide1909 Girl Scout1909 lieutenant1909 pathfinder1911 sea scout1911 rosebud1914 brownie1916 sixer1916 tenderpad1916 Brown Owl1918 rover1918 Rover Scout1918 ranger1920 tawny owl1921 Cub1922 Akela1924 scouter1930 Guider1931 den mother1936 Queen's Guide1946 Queen's Scout1952 Venture Scout1966 Beaver1975 skipper1986 1908 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys 3 We had an example of how useful Boy Scouts can be on active service, when a corps of boys was formed in the defence of Mafeking.] 1908 Scout 18 Apr. 1 Although the Boy Scouts have only been set going within the last two months, they are rapidly increasing all over the country. 1909 Daily Mail 6 Sept. The following message from the King was read at Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell's review of the Boy Scouts at the Crystal Palace on Saturday... ‘The King is glad to know that the Boy Scouts are holding their first annual parade. Please assure the boys that [etc.]’. 1909 B. W. Henderson in Times 21 Sept. At Oxford we have seen the number of Boy Scouts rise from 30 to 300 in nine months, and there are no scouts, I believe, outside the organization. 1910 ‘Scoutmaster’ Boy Scout i. 1 General Sir Robert S. Baden-Powell, the founder of the Movement, recognised this when he first propounded his scheme for boy scouts... The Movement was started less than three years ago. 1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 488/2 The flowering of such intermediate activities as the nursery school, the afternoon play-class, the boy scouts, the summer camp and the dude ranch. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. ii. 151 At the Abbey. 7.30 p.m. Boy scouts enjoying themselves helping distressed aristocrats, getting their cars for them, etc., and always saluting. 1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) xxi. 175 When..some Boy Scouts rushed in to administer first aid to him he shoved them off. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) ii. v. 87 Eleven years old, a Boy Scout for two months (after which I quit: too much marching and knot-tying). 2002 BusinessWeek 22 July 8/4 When I was a Boy Scout and we laid twigs..to direct people to water. 2. A person who resembles a Boy Scout, esp. as regards his or her honesty, helpfulness, or supposed inexperience. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help redeeOE helpc893 bootOE friendOE lithc1275 helpera1300 a helping handa1300 helpingc1330 bieldc1352 succour?a1366 supplementc1384 easementa1398 succourer1442 aid?1473 assister1535 assistant?1541 adminicle1551 mystery1581 second1590 auxiliatory1599 subsidium1640 suffragan1644 facilitation1648 adminiculary1652 auxiliary1656 auxiliar1670 ally1794 Boy Scout1918 assist1954 facilitator1987 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people greenhead1576 unexperienced1622 green man1635 greenhorn1672 amateur1767 green1824 greeny1834 Hoosier1846 shavetail1846 Boy Scout1918 nig-nog1953 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun] > person or thing > person truelOE true mana1225 trusty1570 warrant1832 sea-green incorruptible1837 Honest John1855 Boy Scout1918 straight arrow1969 1918 I. S. Cobb Glory of Coming p. xiii The Poilus called our soldiers ‘Boy Scouts’ and spoke of our effort as ‘The Second Children's Crusade’. 1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 60 The noncoms (who for weeks had been calling us ‘Boy Scouts’) hung a blue ribbon on the bulletin board. 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 22 Boy scout, an immature male. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 267 Boy scout,..a traffic policeman who spends much of his time in helping motorists with flat tires, stalled cars, empty gas tanks, and so on. 1965 ‘A. Nicol’ Truly Married Woman 84 Bandele had said, threateningly, that he had better not mention his name, but he could go and be a Boy Scout on his own. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe iii. 57 It was Mark's idea. Mark's absolutely the Boy Scout. 2002 Mirror 18 Mar. 8/3 A new war is being plotted against Iraq and, while most of Europe is nervous, the boy scout in No 10 is ready and willing once more. Compounds attributive, appositive, etc. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 9 July 8/2 The youth of the three kingdoms of the boy scout movement. 1914 W. Owen Let. 1 June (1967) 257 Certain of my Boy-Scout acquaintance. 1936 W. R. F. Collis Silver Fleece v. xvi. 266 Above all he hated..the ‘boy scout’ mentality, the modern tendency to march about in mobs, wearing coloured shirts, shouting, and beating up anybody who doesn't shout with you. 1950 ‘E. Crispin’ Frequent Hearses iv. 198 ‘What about the knife?’ ‘An oversized boy-scout affair..ground razor~sharp.’ 1967 J. Porter Chinks in Curtain v. 53 All right, chum, and what would you have done? Given the Boy Scout salute? 1978 S. Brill Teamsters ii. 43 His father was a teetotaler, a boy-scout husband who came home every night. 2001 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. a12/5 There are 123,935 Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs, with 3.4 million young people involved. Derivatives (Frequently with pejorative connotations.) ˌBoy ˈScoutery n. = Boy Scoutism n.; (also) an instance of this. ΚΠ 1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering v. ii. 254 He never got us under canvas it is true—we were not the most promising material for Ezra's boyscoutery. 1967 E. Grierson Crime of one's Own xi. 96 You must be mad... You've had that look about you ever since you started this boy-scoutery. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 111/2 Having watched the Yugoslav tragedy unfold on the ground, Floquet and Coq write bitterly of Louchner's ‘boy-scouteries’. ˌBoy ˈScoutism n. the activity or attitude of a Boy Scout; also figurative. ΚΠ 1928 Cent. Mag. May 65/2 Boy Scoutism waxes, and Old Scoutism wanes. 1963 J. Vaizey Educ. in Class Society 6 These and other [travel and cultural] schemes..would..tend to counterbalance people's enthusiasm for the Boy Scoutism of the Duke of Edinburgh's award. 1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 May 17/1 Saint-Exupéry suffers from regular charges of ‘Boy Scoutism’ and the Little Prince often enough gets compared to Tintin, the comic-book hero. ˌBoy ˈScoutish adj. characteristic of a Boy Scout. ΚΠ 1933 School Rev. 41 796 There is something a little ‘camp-fire-girlish’ and ‘boy-scoutish’ about such devices. 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xiv. 84 Calling me ‘boy-scoutish’ which he knew would hit me where it hurt. 1997 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 25/1 Explaining attendance at Music Camp, members have found themselves protesting that it is neither boy-scoutish nor full of Hi-De-Hi jollity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1908
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