scoutmastern.
/ˈskaʊtmɑːstə/ 1. figurative.1644 E. Dering Disc. Proper Sacrifice d iiij b Archbishop Laud..takes the words which Heylin (his Scoutmaster) had found passable.
a. A leader or captain of a band of scouts. Now usually the officer who has charge of a ‘troop’ of (boy) scouts.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides
Boy Scout1908
patrol leader1908
scout1908
scoutmaster1908
tenderfoot1908
captain1909
Girl Guide1909
Girl Scout1909
lieutenant1909
pathfinder1911
sea scout1911
rosebud1914
brownie1916
sixer1916
tenderpad1916
Brown Owl1918
rover1918
Rover Scout1918
ranger1920
tawny owl1921
Cub1922
Akela1924
scouter1930
Guider1931
den mother1936
Queen's Guide1946
Queen's Scout1952
Venture Scout1966
Beaver1975
skipper1986
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 99 The Scout maister oughte diligently to viewe and note rounde aboute the campe.
1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 16 The General of the horsmen hath to serue him, his Lieftenant, Colonels, Captaines, and Scoutmasters.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xxi. 235 Captaine Crofts the Scout-Master [was killed] with a shot in the backe.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 54/1 Parson Hudson, an able divine, was his scout-master, and Chillingworth his engineer.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iv. 107 The scout-master arrived after a brief delay.
1908 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys 25 The badge is worn by scout masters on the left side of the hat or cap.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 117/2 Officers, called scout~masters, must be over eighteen.
1928 R. A. Knox Footsteps at Lock v. 42 The scout-master, a man of some age and education.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags i. 14 His binoculars which she remembered vaguely having lent to the scout-master.
1977 S. Brett Star Trap xi. 126 He's a scout~master and tends to be off camping..most weekends.
b. scoutmaster general n. (Historical) The chief of the intelligence department of the Parliamentary army.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > chief of intelligence department
scoutmaster general1647
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva 326 (List of Officers) Major Watson, Scoutmaster Gen. to the Army.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1644 104/1 Scout-master General Bedford came to the house with Letters from the Commissioners in the Army, of the particulars of the Battel at Newbury.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 289 Forasmuch as he [sc. Mr. Prywell] was so naturally inclined to seek their good, and also to undermine their foes, they gave him a Commission of Scout-master-general . View more context for this quotation
1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 498 No body was more active in procuring these witnesses, than the Bishop of Meath, who had been Scoutmaster General to Oliver Cromwell's army.
2. Used for schout n.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > other municipal officials > [noun] > in Low Countries
schout1480
scoutette1534
scult1548
scoutmaster1652
1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 5 The Sheriffs [of the cities of Holland] together with the Scout~master [It. Sculteto] deal in the administration of Justice both Civill and Criminall.
1690 Moral Ess. Pres. Times vii. 117 There is in every one of these parishes of Holland, one they call a Scout-Master, which is the chief Magistrate of it.
Derivatives
ˈscoutmastering n. the occupation of a scoutmaster.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > activities of scouts or guides
scouting1908
Girl Scouting1911
Girl Guiding1918
guiding1924
scoutmastering1957
Venture Scouting1967
1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 124 I've done quite a bit of scoutmastering.
1964 K. G. Grubb Layman looks at Church v. 152 Any form of voluntary activity from local government to scout-mastering is in the same difficulty, namely that the pressures and claims of business make voluntary work impossible.
ˈscoutmasterish adj.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [adjective] > members of scouts or guides
girl-guidish1922
girl-guidey1931
scoutmasterish1937
scoutmasterly1954
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier x. 192 Shouted out of existence with a few scoutmasterish bellows of good-will.
ˈscoutmasterly adj. resembling or characteristic of a scoutmaster.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [adjective] > members of scouts or guides
girl-guidish1922
girl-guidey1931
scoutmasterish1937
scoutmasterly1954
1954 E. Hyams Stories & Cream 9 The stout, genial Scoutmasterly fellow.
1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol v. 21 He patted me on the shoulder in a scoutmasterly way.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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