scoutとは

語源 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.^[1]

名詞

scout (複数形 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.
   • Cowper

     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.
   • 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.

5. (Britain) A college servant (in Oxford, England または Yale または Harvard), originally implying a male servant, 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.
6. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
7. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
8. (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."

派生語

• scoutmaster
• talent scout

動詞

scout (三人称単数 現在形 scouts, 現在分詞 scouting, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Take more men, and scout him round.

派生語

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

語源 2

Of Scandinavian origin. Compare Old Norse skúta, skúti (“taunt”); thus may be related to English shout.

動詞

scout (三人称単数 現在形 scouts, 現在分詞 scouting, 過去形および過去分詞形 scouted)

1. (transitive) To reject with contempt.

   to scout an idea or an apology

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2

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

   • Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

     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.

語源 3

Icelandic skta (“a small craft または cutter”)?

名詞

scout (複数形 scouts)

1. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
   • Samuel Pepys

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

語源 4

Icelandic [Term?], meaning "to jut out".

名詞

scout (複数形 scouts)

1. (archaic) A projecting rock.

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参考

• Scout (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.
• scout in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

参照

Further reading

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