scout

• ape
• baby
• bad-mouth
• bait
• barrack
• being
• belittle
• bird
• bod
• body
• brother
• bug
• burlesque
• caricature
• catcall
• celebrity
• chaff
• character
• cookie
• cooky
• creature
• customer
• decry
• deride
• devil
• disparage
• duck
• egg
• face
• fellow
• fellowman
• fish
• gibe
• guy
• harass
• harry
• hassle
• head
• heckle
• hominid
• homo
• human
• human being
• humanoid
• imitate
• individual
• jeer
• jibe
• jive
• josh
• kid
• lampoon
• life
• make fun of
• make sport of
• man
• mimic
• mock
• mortal
• needle
• neighbor
• parody
• parrot
• party
• person
• personage
• personality
• pester
• pillory
• poke fun at
• pooh
• pooh-pooh
• put down
• quiz
• rag
• rag on
• rally
• razz
• rib
• ride
• ridicule
• satirize
• scorn
• self
• shoot down
• skewer
• slob
• somebody
• son of man
• sort
• soul
• specimen
• stiff
• target
• taunt
• tease
• thing
• torment
• travesty
• tweak
• twit
• wight

• animal
• applaud
• approve
• beast
• beastie
• brute
• commend
• critter
• endorse
• indorse
• sanction

• noun
  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.
  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.
  5. A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or 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. A fielder in a game for practice.
  7. (up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
  8. Term of address for a man or boy.
  9. A swift sailing boat.
  10. A projecting rock.
  11. The guillemot.
• verb
  1. To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
  2. To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
  3. To reject with contempt.
  4. To scoff.
  5. To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.

• The scout returned with news about the enemy's position.
• She worked as a talent scout for a major record label.
• The boy wanted to become a scout just like his older brother.
• A scout was sent ahead to check the trail.
• They hired a scout to find new filming locations.

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