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▪ I. scooter, n.|ˈskuːtə(r)|
[f. scoot v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who ‘scoots’ or goes hurriedly.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., ‘To run like scooter,’ i.e. very nimbly. 1893Blackw. Mag. Sept. 367/2 We do not..curse the harmless Saxon... If he is circling the coast of Antrim on mail-cars, we call him a ‘Scooter’—nothing worse.
2. Sc. and north. A syringe, squirt.
1829in Brockett N.C. Words. 1882in Jamieson.
3. U.S. [Perh. a different word: cf. cooter dial. form of coulter.] A simple plough with a single handle used for marking furrows, making drills, breaking up the soil in furrows or between rows of plants. In full scooter plough.
1820in Henderson's North Carolina Almanack (1823) 25 The ridges are opened with a small plough called a scooter, something like a shovel plough. 1842in J. A. Turner Cotton Planter's Manual (1857) 55 The next operation to be performed..is to plough out the middles well, the wide way, with a good shovel-plough, having first run around the young plant with a scooter-plough. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 414, 100 bushels of cotton seed were turned under with a Brinley plow, followed in the same furrow by a scooter, breaking the soil six or seven inches. 1895Rural World 14 Dec. 867/2 If there is no proper subsoil plough, then run a..scooter in the furrow. 1905Times, Engineering Suppl. 9 Aug. 189/3 As soon as the tobacco plants are firmly set, a ‘scooter’ is run between the rows, which throws up a flat-bottom furrow. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling xxx. 385 He brought old Caesar and the scooter plow and turned in to the field, laid off and bedded up ready for the corn, to open the furrows for the planting. 1944T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows 281 By colloquial designations the various strange shapes were known to the trade as sweeps, shovels, scooters, twisters,..scrapers and subsoilers.
4. a. A boat, propelled by sails, capable of being used both on ice and in water. N. Amer. b. A fast motor-boat, used in the war of 1914–18. c. A motorized pleasure boat resembling a motor-scooter. In full, sea scooter, water scooter.
1903N.Y. Times 13 Dec., The ‘scooter’..is built with a bottom and a deck which are duplicates of each other. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v. Ice-scooter. These scooters may be run alternately through water and over ice. 1919Times 21 Feb. 11/2 The war has produced ‘P’ boats and ‘Q’ boats and ‘U’ boats, but the wildest of all wild things is the ‘scooter’, professionally known as the coastal motor-boat. 1927G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 151/1 Scooter, an amphibious craft, shallow and beamy, equipped with runners beneath and rigged with a jib and mainsail. It is used as an ice boat, particularly on Great South Bay, Long Island. It is capable of crossing patches of open water. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 118 Scooter, a coastal motor boat in the war. 1948J. Steinbeck Russian Jrnl. vi. 116 There were boat races on the river, little water-scooters with outboard motors. 1958Times 21 Jan. 8/5 (heading) Man on sea scooter believed drowned. Ibid., Mr. John Penn.., believed to have been drowned..while testing a water scooter at West Mersea, Essex. 1966Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard 13 Jan. 2/6 A provincial police diver today located an ice-scooter owned by a local insurance agent who vanished here last night. 1976Vacation Fun in Dearborn (Dearborn, Mich., Times-Herald) Summer, Pedal boats and water scooters on Lakes Three and Six.
5. a. A child's toy consisting of a footboard mounted between two tandem wheels with a long handle attached to the front wheel, operated by resting one foot on the footboard while pushing with the other and steering by the handle.
1919Times 21 Feb. 11/2 The ‘scooter’ we knew before the war was a new terror to the pavement. 1921Spectator 2 July 8/1 Must you not use first one foot then another on your scooter, lest you get ‘scooter leg’. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 191 A youth those reporters so pettitily wanted as gamefellow that they asked his mother for ittle earps brupper to let him tome to Tindertarten, pease, and bing his scooter 'long. 1943D. Powell Time to be Born iv. 79 The first twenty years of their existence which had been wasted in marbles, dolls, hoop-rolling, and scooter-racing. 1961Toys & Fancy Goods Aug. 22 Two pavement scooters..with red frame, yellow wheels and white grips.
b. = motor-scooter s.v. motor n. 6.
1917Autocar 20 Jan. 60/1 For some months past it has been known in this country that the ‘scooter’ in America has developed into something rather beyond the child's plaything so popular in the British Isles. Until quite recently, however, the American motor-driven ‘scooter’ has not been seen in London. 1919Model Engineer & Electrician 27 Feb. 142/1 A scooter of this type can cover 100 miles on a gallon of petrol. 1944R. Chandler Lady in Lake v. 30 An anxious-looking bird thumped past on a power-scooter. 1957Times 19 Nov. 11/3 The rising popularity of new types of machines—the scooter and the moped. 1971Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 1/3 Safety helmets are to be made compulsory for riders and passengers of solo motor cycles, scooters and mopeds.
c. In various extended and slang uses: see quots.
1917Little Folks Sept. p. vi. (Advt.), The free-wheel auto⁓scooter propelled by pedal. 1919I. F. Marcosson S.O.S.: America's Miracle in France vi. 154 The vastness of these Depots is such that an inspection on foot..is out of the question. They are so criss-crossed with rails that you must use a ‘Scooter’, which is a motor-driven hand-car fitted for standard-gauge tracks... Every important official has his own ‘Scooter’ and you can see them scooting over the place at all hours of the day and night. 1930A. Armstrong Taxi! v. 48 There were still a large number of two-cylinder Renaults (called ‘scooters’) plying for hire. 1935N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 64 Scooter, a rum-running car. 1948‘J. Evans’ Halo for Satan vi. 78 ‘We'll use your scooter, Mac... Where's she parked?’..I wondered how they knew I had a car. 1953Sun (Baltimore) (B ed.) 15 June 4/2 A new $1,000 ‘flying scooter’ powered by a 12-horse⁓power engine for the ‘people's car’ (Volkswagen), has been making test flights from a forest clearing south of Hamburg. Ibid., The scooter has five or eight vanes, radiating from a circular passenger cabin which stands on three wheels. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1261/1 Scooter.., a single-deck bus; a driver-only bus: busmen's: since ca. 1945. 1963Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 28 June 1/6 An aerospace firm has come up with something it calls a space scooter, a one-man platform with handlebars designed for crater hopping and crag climbing on the moon. 1971A. Diment Think Inc. iv. 70 A scooter truck, that strange bastard little vehicle with a bulbous cab married to a small, pick-up body. 1972N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 14/4 Fleets of flag-bedecked scooter-buses.
6. attrib. and Comb. (sense 5 b), as scooter-man, scooter rider, scooter-traffic. (See also senses 3 and 5 c.)
1960Guardian 12 Dec. 2/4 The irresponsible way in which many scootermen (and ladies) wind their way through traffic.
1959Times 16 May 7/6 As a scooter-rider of some seniority I ventured to write to you some months ago about the apparent disinterest of the authorities in the parking of scooters. 1976Daily Mail (Hull) 16 Dec. 1/4 Scooter-rider J. B...was admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary..after his vehicle was involved in an accident with a car.
1960Daily Tel. 14 June 1/1 Accidents involving motor-scooters showed the greatest percentage increase, 61 per cent, but the scooter traffic was estimated to have gone up by 64 per cent. during the year.
▪ II. ˈscooter, v.
[f. the n.]
intr. To travel by scooter (senses 4 and 5). Hence ˈscootering vbl. n.
1911Webster, Scooter.., a strongly built sailboat... Hence: scootering, n. 1957C. Brooke-Rose Languages of Love 15 He climbed on to his Lambretta and scootered off towards Oxford Street. 1957New Yorker 26 Oct. 35/3 Scootering is the most economical and practical form of transportation available in New York today. 1960Housewife May 46/1 When scootering, slacks are just about permissible. 1961Times 9 Mar. 21/3 Scootering in Great Britain has also become a hobby. |