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.

Origin:
1680–90; obsolete scamp to go (see scamp) + -er6

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scamp2 (skæmp) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
a less common word for skimp
 
'scamper2
 
n

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scamper (ˈskæmpə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
1.  to run about playfully
2.  (often foll by through) to hurry quickly through (a place, task, book, etc)
 
n
3.  the act of scampering
 
[C17: probably from scamp (vb); see scamp1]
 
'scamperer
 
n

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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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Example sentences
If you lost, you'd scamper home through the back streets.
Squirrels scamper about gathering the last of the acorns.
But while these mice may seem to scamper haphazardly across the desert floor,
  their arrangement in nature is strikingly orderly.
The pigs squeal and scamper towards us, pushing their snouts through the metal
  bars.
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