different between scout vs scouty

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ska?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [sk??t]
• (General Australian)
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophone: Scout

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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.

   • 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.
5. A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
6. (Britain) A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implied male, 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.
7. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
8. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
9. (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."

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

   • Take more men, and scout him round.

Derived terms

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skúta, skúti (“taunt”), Middle English scoute (“a wretch, rascal, rogue”); thus may be related to English shout.

Verb

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, Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 3 scene 2

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

   • 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.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English scoute, skoute (also schoute, shoute, schuyt), from Middle Low German schûte or Middle Dutch schute; or possibly from Old Norse skúta (“a small craft or cutter”).

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
   • 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary entry 18th May 1660

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

Etymology 4

From Middle English scouten (“to jut out, project”), from Old Norse skúta (“to jut out”), cognate with Icelandic skúta (“to jut out”).

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. (archaic) A projecting rock.

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

Etymology 5

Verb

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.

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. The guillemot.

See also

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

References

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?u?t/
• Hyphenation: scout
• Rhymes: -?u?t

Noun

scout m (plural scouts)

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

   Synonym: padvinder

2. (sports) A talent scout.

Related terms

• scouting

French

Noun

scout m (plural scouts)

1. scout, boy scout

Derived terms

• parole de scout

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of boyscout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skau?t/, [s?käu?t?]

Noun

scout m or f (invariable)

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

   Synonym: esploratore

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English scout.

Noun

scout m or f (plural scouts)

1. scout

Swedish

Noun

scout c

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

Declension

English

Etymology

scout +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?ti

Adjective

scouty (comparative more scouty, superlative most scouty)

1. (informal) resembling a scout
2. (informal) suitable for scouts