different between scoot vs flee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sku?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot”), or perhaps related to Middle English scottlynge (“moving one's feet quickly, scampering”, literally “scuttling”), see scuddle, scuttle.

Noun

scoot (plural scoots)

1. (slang) A dollar.
2. (slang) a scooter.
3. A sideways shuffling or sliding motion.

Verb

scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (intransitive) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.

   They scooted over to the window.

2. (intransitive) To ride on a scooter.
3. (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

   The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.
4. (intransitive) To move sideways (especially along a seat for multiple people), usually to make room for someone else (to sit, stand, etc.).

   Do you mind scooting a bit to the left?

5. (transitive) To dispatch someone or something at speed.
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye

     He scooted us out of the study and turned off the light […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:scoot.

Derived terms

• scoot over

Translations

Etymology 2

Variant of shoot.

Verb

scoot (third-person singular simple present scoots, present participle scooting, simple past and past participle scooted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To squirt.

Noun

scoot (plural scoots)

1. (Scotland) A sudden flow of water; a squirt.

Anagrams

• Cotos, Scoto-, coost, coots, costo-, cotso, scoto-, tocos

English

Etymology

From Old English fl?on, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).

Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fli?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: flea

Verb

flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)

1. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
2. (transitive) To escape from.
3. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

Derived terms

• beflee

Related terms

• flight

Translations

Anagrams

• elfe, feel, fele, leef

Middle English

Noun

flee

1. Alternative form of fle

Scots

Alternative forms

• fle, flei

Etymology

From Middle English flye, from Old English fl??e, fl?oge, from Proto-Germanic *fleug?. Compare English fly, Dutch vlieg, German Fliege.

Noun

flee

1. fly