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scoutmaster, scout-master|ˈskaʊtmɑːstə(r)|
[f. scout n.4 + master n.1]
1. a. A leader or captain of a band of scouts. Now usu. the officer who has charge of a ‘troop’ of (boy) scouts.
1579Digges Stratiot. 99 The Scout maister oughte diligently to viewe and note rounde aboute the campe. 1590Sir R. Williams Brief Disc. War 16 The General of the horsmen hath to serue him, his Lieftenant, Colonels, Captaines, and Scoutmasters. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. xxi. 235 Captaine Crofts the Scout-Master [was killed] with a shot in the backe. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 54 Parson Hudson, an able divine, was his scout-master, and Chillingworth his engineer. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxv, The scout⁓master arrived after a brief delay. 1908R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys 25 The badge is worn by scout masters on the left side of the hat or cap. 1910Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 117/2 Officers, called scout⁓masters, must be over eighteen. 1928R. Knox Footsteps at Lock v. 42 The scout-master, a man of some age and education. 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags i. 14 His binoculars which she remembered vaguely having lent to the scout-master. 1977S. Brett Star Trap xi. 126 He's a scout⁓master and tends to be off camping..most weekends.
fig.1644Sir E. Dering Prop. Sacr. d iiij b, Archbishop Laud..takes the words which Heylin (his Scoutmaster) had found passable.
b. scoutmaster general: (Hist.) The chief of the intelligence department of the Parliamentary army.
1644Whitelocke Mem. (1853) I. 321 Scoutmaster general Bedford came to the house with letters from the commissioners in the army, of the particulars of the battle at Newbury. 1647J. Sprigge Anglia Rediv. 326 (List of Officers), Major Watson, Scoutmaster Gen. to the Army. 1682Bunyan Holy War 289 Forasmuch as he [Mr. Prywell] was so naturally inclined to seek their good, and also to undermine their foes, they gave him a Commission of Scoutmaster-general. 1736Carte 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. Erroneously used for schout.
1652Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Hist. Relat. 5 The Sheriffs [of the cities of Holland] together with the Scout⁓master [orig. Sculteto] deal in the administration of Justice both Civill and Criminall. 1690Moral 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.
Hence ˈscoutmastering, the occupation of a scoutmaster; ˈscoutmasterish, ˈscoutmasterly adjs., resembling or characteristic of a scoutmaster.
1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier x. 192 Shouted out of existence with a few scoutmasterish bellows of good-will. 1954E. Hyams Stories & Cream 9 The stout, genial Scoutmasterly fellow. 1957L. Durrell Justine ii. 124 I've done quite a bit of scoutmastering. 1964K. 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. 1979K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol v. 21 He patted me on the shoulder in a scoutmasterly way. |
