Citations:scroot


 * 1907 October, Josephine Tozier, A Spring Fortnight in France, Dodd, page 183,
 * "...I would be willing to ride in any kind of a car. I would even go in a scroot, if necessary."
 * "What in the world is a scroot, Margot?"
 * "It is only my name for one of those nasty little, smelly, noisy, ancient automobiles that go shaking past our country place at home. I stole the word from papa. It is what he calls a ragged little cur, just plain dog. My scroot is just plain ragged motor, without fancy trimmings."
 * 1920, Herschel S. Hall, Steel Preferred, E.P. Dutton, page 34,
 * "The young whelp!" he roared to Nicker. "The yellow scroot! Why, the bloody little boozer!"
 * 2005, Edgar Martin, Boots and the Mystery of the Unlucky Vase, Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 1417986026, chapter 4, page 73,
 * The blamed hound, the mangy scroot!