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Scooch vs X - What's the difference?

scooch | x |

As a verb scooch

is (us) to shift, move aside, or scoot over.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

scooch

English

Alternative forms

* scootch * skooch * skootch

Verb

  • (US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
  • * 1992 , Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone
    • "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."
  • * 1998 , George Ostrom, Shannon Ostrom, Nature
    • Lying on your side, start rocking back and forth, scooching to and fro and kicking.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Clements, A Week in the Woods
    • Turning over onto his back, he scooched down farther into his bag. It was the kind of sleeping bag with a hood built into it, so he pulled on the drawstring...
  • To crouch.
  • *, chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=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 at it.}}

    Anagrams

    *

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----