Scoot vs Scooch - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scooch and scoot

is that scooch is to shift, move aside, or scoot over while scoot is to walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.

As a noun scoot is

a dollar.

scoot

English

Noun

(en noun)

(slang) A dollar.

(slang) a scooter.

:I got a new scoot yesterday. It's a Gamma.

Verb

(en verb)

(split) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.

They scooted over to the window.

To ride on a .

(of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "scoot")

Derived terms

* scoot over

Anagrams

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.}}