Citations:scroot

English citations of scroot

• 1907 October, Josephine Tozier, A Spring Fortnight in France, Dodd, page 183,

  "...I would be willing to ride in any kind of a car. I would even go in a scroot, if necessary."

  "What in the world is a scroot, Margot?"

  "It is only my name for one of those nasty little, smelly, noisy, ancient automobiles that go shaking past our country place at home. I stole the word from papa. It is what he calls a ragged little cur, just plain dog. My scroot is just plain ragged motor, without fancy trimmings."

• 1920, Herschel S. Hall, Steel Preferred, E.P. Dutton, page 34,

  "The young whelp!" he roared to Nicker. "The yellow scroot! Why, the bloody little boozer!"

• 2005, Edgar Martin, Boots and the Mystery of the Unlucky Vase, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 4, page 73,

  The blamed hound, the mangy scroot!

• 1927, American Legion, The American Legion Monthly, page 46:

  ... Dog Derby , a series of races for boys driving dogs hitched to sleds . All sorts of dogs take part - pugs , bulldogs , collies , police dogs and just scroots . The dogs are driven in singles , tandems and all sorts of combinations […]

• 2012 August 1, Richard Powell, All Over But the Shooting: An Arab and Andy Blake mystery, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

  ... scroots in a dog pound. The jaygee lieutenant was claimed first. A brunette trick came in and the Navy jumped up ... puppy bringing a rubber ball. I guess I have no pride. Arab took the flowers and candy, and murmured, “For me? How […]