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单词 boy scout
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Boy Scoutn.

Brit. /ˌbɔɪ ˈskaʊt/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪ ˌskaʊt/
Forms: also with lower-case initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: boy n.1, scout n.4
Etymology: < boy n.1 + scout n.4
1. A member of a youth organization (known in the United Kingdom as the Scout Association and in the United States as Boy Scouts of America) founded for boys in 1908 by Lord Baden-Powell, intended to develop character esp. by open-air activities. Also (in plural) the organization itself.The term ‘Boy’ was officially omitted from the title of the U.K. organization, which since 1990 has admitted girls. The fuller form remains common in popular usage.Cf. Cub Scout at cub n.1 2c, Girl Scout n., sea scout n. at sea n. Compounds 6a, Venture Scout n. at venture n. Compounds, etc. Also cf. Girl Guide n.
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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
1908 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys 3 We had an example of how useful Boy Scouts can be on active service, when a corps of boys was formed in the defence of Mafeking.]
1908 Scout 18 Apr. 1 Although the Boy Scouts have only been set going within the last two months, they are rapidly increasing all over the country.
1909 Daily Mail 6 Sept. The following message from the King was read at Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell's review of the Boy Scouts at the Crystal Palace on Saturday... ‘The King is glad to know that the Boy Scouts are holding their first annual parade. Please assure the boys that [etc.]’.
1909 B. W. Henderson in Times 21 Sept. At Oxford we have seen the number of Boy Scouts rise from 30 to 300 in nine months, and there are no scouts, I believe, outside the organization.
1910 ‘Scoutmaster’ Boy Scout i. 1 General Sir Robert S. Baden-Powell, the founder of the Movement, recognised this when he first propounded his scheme for boy scouts... The Movement was started less than three years ago.
1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 488/2 The flowering of such intermediate activities as the nursery school, the afternoon play-class, the boy scouts, the summer camp and the dude ranch.
1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. ii. 151 At the Abbey. 7.30 p.m. Boy scouts enjoying themselves helping distressed aristocrats, getting their cars for them, etc., and always saluting.
1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) xxi. 175 When..some Boy Scouts rushed in to administer first aid to him he shoved them off.
1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) ii. v. 87 Eleven years old, a Boy Scout for two months (after which I quit: too much marching and knot-tying).
2002 BusinessWeek 22 July 8/4 When I was a Boy Scout and we laid twigs..to direct people to water.
2. A person who resembles a Boy Scout, esp. as regards his or her honesty, helpfulness, or supposed inexperience.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help
redeeOE
helpc893
bootOE
friendOE
lithc1275
helpera1300
a helping handa1300
helpingc1330
bieldc1352
succour?a1366
supplementc1384
easementa1398
succourer1442
aid?1473
assister1535
assistant?1541
adminicle1551
mystery1581
second1590
auxiliatory1599
subsidium1640
suffragan1644
facilitation1648
adminiculary1652
auxiliary1656
auxiliar1670
ally1794
Boy Scout1918
assist1954
facilitator1987
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people
greenhead1576
unexperienced1622
green man1635
greenhorn1672
amateur1767
green1824
greeny1834
Hoosier1846
shavetail1846
Boy Scout1918
nig-nog1953
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun] > person or thing > person
truelOE
true mana1225
trusty1570
warrant1832
sea-green incorruptible1837
Honest John1855
Boy Scout1918
straight arrow1969
1918 I. S. Cobb Glory of Coming p. xiii The Poilus called our soldiers ‘Boy Scouts’ and spoke of our effort as ‘The Second Children's Crusade’.
1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 60 The noncoms (who for weeks had been calling us ‘Boy Scouts’) hung a blue ribbon on the bulletin board.
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 22 Boy scout, an immature male.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 267 Boy scout,..a traffic policeman who spends much of his time in helping motorists with flat tires, stalled cars, empty gas tanks, and so on.
1965 ‘A. Nicol’ Truly Married Woman 84 Bandele had said, threateningly, that he had better not mention his name, but he could go and be a Boy Scout on his own.
1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe iii. 57 It was Mark's idea. Mark's absolutely the Boy Scout.
2002 Mirror 18 Mar. 8/3 A new war is being plotted against Iraq and, while most of Europe is nervous, the boy scout in No 10 is ready and willing once more.

Compounds

attributive, appositive, etc.
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1909 Daily Chron. 9 July 8/2 The youth of the three kingdoms of the boy scout movement.
1914 W. Owen Let. 1 June (1967) 257 Certain of my Boy-Scout acquaintance.
1936 W. R. F. Collis Silver Fleece v. xvi. 266 Above all he hated..the ‘boy scout’ mentality, the modern tendency to march about in mobs, wearing coloured shirts, shouting, and beating up anybody who doesn't shout with you.
1950 ‘E. Crispin’ Frequent Hearses iv. 198 ‘What about the knife?’ ‘An oversized boy-scout affair..ground razor~sharp.’
1967 J. Porter Chinks in Curtain v. 53 All right, chum, and what would you have done? Given the Boy Scout salute?
1978 S. Brill Teamsters ii. 43 His father was a teetotaler, a boy-scout husband who came home every night.
2001 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. a12/5 There are 123,935 Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs, with 3.4 million young people involved.

Derivatives

(Frequently with pejorative connotations.)
ˌBoy ˈScoutery n. = Boy Scoutism n.; (also) an instance of this.
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1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering v. ii. 254 He never got us under canvas it is true—we were not the most promising material for Ezra's boyscoutery.
1967 E. Grierson Crime of one's Own xi. 96 You must be mad... You've had that look about you ever since you started this boy-scoutery.
1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 111/2 Having watched the Yugoslav tragedy unfold on the ground, Floquet and Coq write bitterly of Louchner's ‘boy-scouteries’.
ˌBoy ˈScoutism n. the activity or attitude of a Boy Scout; also figurative.
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1928 Cent. Mag. May 65/2 Boy Scoutism waxes, and Old Scoutism wanes.
1963 J. Vaizey Educ. in Class Society 6 These and other [travel and cultural] schemes..would..tend to counterbalance people's enthusiasm for the Boy Scoutism of the Duke of Edinburgh's award.
1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 May 17/1 Saint-Exupéry suffers from regular charges of ‘Boy Scoutism’ and the Little Prince often enough gets compared to Tintin, the comic-book hero.
ˌBoy ˈScoutish adj. characteristic of a Boy Scout.
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1933 School Rev. 41 796 There is something a little ‘camp-fire-girlish’ and ‘boy-scoutish’ about such devices.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xiv. 84 Calling me ‘boy-scoutish’ which he knew would hit me where it hurt.
1997 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 25/1 Explaining attendance at Music Camp, members have found themselves protesting that it is neither boy-scoutish nor full of Hi-De-Hi jollity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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