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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.

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Origin:
1680–90; obsolete scamp to go (see scamp) + -er6
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scamp2 (skæmp)
 
—vb
a less common word for skimp
 
'scamper2
 
—n

scamper (ˈskæmpə)
 
—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
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campus). A vogue word late 17c.
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