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scootch

scootch is the alternative spelling of scooch.

scootch is the alternative form of scooch.

Meaning of scooch

Verb

scooch (third-person singular simple present scooches, present participle scooching, simple past and past participle scooched)

  1. (US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
    • "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."1992, Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone
  2. To crouch.
    • Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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Forms of scootch

Verb
third-person singular presentscootches
present participlescootching
past participlescootched
pastscootched
Noun
pluralscootches

Questions about scootch

What is scootch the alternative spelling of?
Scootch is the alternative spelling of scooch.

Words near scootch in the dictionary

  1. scoot
  2. scoot over
  3. scoot up
  4. scootberries
  5. scootberry
  6. scootch
  7. scootched
  8. scootches
  9. scootching
  10. scooted
  11. scooted over

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