Noun: scoot
| Singular | scoot |
| Plural | scoots |
Sample Sentences
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a quick scoot to the supermarket
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Instinctively, he lifted the chair a fraction, and gave it a little scoot away from her. [2013, Liz Carlyle, Three Little Secrets:]
Nouns inflected like scoot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Old Norse Nouns '
skjóta', Middle English Nouns '
scottlynge'.
Verbs referencing "scoot"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
skuter.