Scouting
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late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French escouter ‘listen’, earlier ascolter, from Latin auscultare . scout1 (sense 5 of the noun) (early 18th century) is of uncertain origin.
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scouting (n.)
1640s, verbal noun from scout (v.1). Boy Scout sense from 1908.
