Monday, June 20, 2016

scoot, scute

Scoot or scoot means to move or go quickly, or to move to make room for someone or something --
It's getting late; we'd better scoot.
Ask him to scoot over to make room for us.

Scute or scute means one of the hard bony or horned plates that make part of the shell of a turtle, the skin of a crocodile, or the feet of a bird --
The turtle was injured, and the vet did some body work on the damaged scute.
This bird has something sharp stuck under a scute on his left foot.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Scoot over; I want get a shot that shows the scute that was injured."

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