Dictionary

boy scout en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A male member of the Scout Movement.
2. (derogatory, sometimes) A man adhering to the values of honesty and idealism, and possibly somewhat naive or unworldly.
   • But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions. 1987 October 2, Wall Street Journal,:
   • An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club". 1982, The Economist, volume 284, Economist Newspaper Ltd., page 24:
   • Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst. 2003, Roger F. S. Kaplan, Conservative socialism: the decline of radicalism and triumph of the Left in France, Transaction Publishers, page 91:

Forms

Deriveds

boy scoutish

Relateds

altar boy

Translations (15)

pl skaut (male member of the Scout Movement) · el πρόσκοπος (male member of the Scout Movement) · de Pfadfinder (male member of the Scout Movement) · sv pojkscout (male member of the Scout Movement) · fr scout (male member of the Scout Movement) · sv scout (male member of the Scout Movement) · da spejder (male member of the Scout Movement) · sv bror Duktig (man adhering to the values of honor and honesty) · cmn 男童軍 /男童军 (male member of the Scout Movement) · cmn 童軍 /童军 (male member of the Scout Movement) · bg бойскаут (male member of the Scout Movement) · eo skolto (male member of the Scout Movement) · pl harcerzyk (man adhering to the values of honor and honesty) · sv präktig (man adhering to the values of honor and honesty) · cs skaut (male member of the Scout Movement)