scouts

• apes
• babies
• bad-mouths
• baits
• barracks
• beings
• belittles
• birds
• bodies
• bods
• brethren
• brothers
• bugs
• burlesques
• caricatures
• catcalls
• celebrities
• chaffs
• characters
• cookies
• creatures
• customers
• decries
• derides
• devils
• disparages
• ducks
• eggs
• faces
• fellowmen
• fellows
• fish
• fishes
• gibes
• guys
• harasses
• harries
• hassles
• heads
• heckles
• hominids
• homos
• human beings
• humanoids
• humans
• imitates
• individuals
• jeers
• jibes
• jives
• joshes
• kids
• lampoons
• lives
• makes fun of
• makes sport of
• men
• mimics
• mocks
• mortals
• needles
• neighbors
• parodies
• parrots
• parties
• people
• personages
• personalities
• pesters
• pillories
• pokes fun at
• pooh-poohs
• poohs
• puts down
• quizzes
• rags
• rags on
• rallies
• razzes
• ribs
• rides
• ridicules
• satirizes
• scorns
• selves
• shoots down
• skewers
• slobs
• somebodies
• sons of man
• sorts
• souls
• specimens
• stiffs
• targets
• taunts
• teases
• things
• torments
• travesties
• tweaks
• twits
• wights

• animals
• applauds
• approves
• beasties
• beasts
• brutes
• commends
• critters
• endorses
• indorses
• sanctions

• 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 scouts returned with reports of enemy movement.
• Scouts often learn valuable survival skills in nature.
• The scouts pitched their tents near the riverbank.
• Military scouts were deployed ahead of the main force.
• College teams sent scouts to observe the championship game.

babies

faces

jeers

quests

rags on

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