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scamp⋅er
[skam-per] 
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to run or go hastily or quickly. |
| 2. | to run playfully about, as a child. |
–noun
| 3. | a scampering; a quick run. |
scamp
[skamp] –noun
| 1. | an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag. |
| 2. | a playful, mischievous, or naughty young person; upstart. |
| 3. | a grouper, Mycteroperca phenax, of Florida: so called from its habit of stealing bait. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to do or perform in a hasty or careless manner: to scamp work. |
Origin:
1775–85; obs. scamp to travel about idly or for mischief, perh. < obs. D schampen to be gone < OF escamper to decamp
1775–85; obs. scamp to travel about idly or for mischief, perh. < obs. D schampen to be gone < OF escamper to decamp
Related forms:
scamper, noun
scamp⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
scampish, adjective
scamp⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
scamp⋅ish⋅ness, noun
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| scamp 2 (skāmp) tr.v. scamped, scamp·ing, scamps To perform in a careless superficial way. [Possibly of Scandinavian origin.] scamp'er n. |
| scam·per (skām'pər) intr.v. scam·pered, scam·per·ing, scam·pers To run or go quickly and lightly: children scampering off to play. n. A quick light run or movement. [Probably from Flemish schampeeren, frequentative of obsolete Dutch schampen, to run away, decamp, from Middle Dutch ontscampen, from Old French escamper, from Old Italian scampare, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre, from Latin ex campō, out of the field : ex, away; see ex- + campō, ablative of campus, field.] |
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Scamper
Scam"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Scampering.] [OF. escamper to escape, to save one's self; L. ex from + campus the field (sc. of battle). See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp, n., Shamble, v. t.] To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. --Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. --S. Sharpe.Scamper
Scam"per\, n. A scampering; a hasty flight.
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Language Translation for : scamper
Spanish:
zafarse, corretear,
German:
davonrennen,
Japanese:
急いで逃げる
scamper
"to run quickly," 1687, probably from Flem. schampeeren, frequentative of schampen "run away," from O.N.Fr. escamper (O.Fr. eschamper) "to run away, flee," from V.L. *excampare "decamp," lit. "leave the field," from L. ex campo, from ex "out of" + campo, ablative of campus "field" (see campus). A vogue word late 17c.
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