different between scouting vs dyb

English

Alternative forms

• Scouting

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ska?t??/

  Rhymes: -a?t??

Noun

scouting (countable and uncountable, plural scoutings)

1. The act of one who scouts.
   • 1935, State Publication (issues 136–145, page 73)

     Careful scoutings by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets were made in 1935, to determine the limits of invasion […]

2. The Scout Movement.
3. The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• dib

Etymology

Short for do your best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

Verb

dyb (third-person singular simple present dybs, present participle dybbing, simple past and past participle dybbed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).
   • 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (page 54)

     I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse djúpr, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz, cognate with English deep and German tief.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?y?b?]

Adjective

dyb (neuter dybt, plural and definite singular attributive dybe)

1. deep
2. profound

Inflection

Noun

dyb n (singular definite dybet, plural indefinite dyb)

1. deep, depth
2. abyss

Inflection

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/

Verb

dyb

1. second-person singular imperative of dyba?