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skootch

skootch is the alternative spelling 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 skootch

third-person singular presentskootches
present participleskootching
past participleskootched
pastskootched

Questions about skootch

What is skootch the alternative spelling of?
Skootch is the alternative spelling of scooch.

Words near skootch in the dictionary

  1. skooshed
  2. skooshes
  3. skooshing
  4. skooshy
  5. skoot
  6. skootch
  7. skootched
  8. skootches
  9. skootching
  10. skooter
  11. skooters

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