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noun skampskæmp informal 1A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way. some little scamp stuffed tissue paper in between the hammer and the bell Example sentencesExamples - The cheating scandal upset Maxwell and Anthony so much that they put salt in his sugar, the naughty scamps.
- While the uber-gathering is undoubtedly for a highly worthwhile cause, both Noel and Damon have raised their hands like cheeky classroom scamps and announced that they have a few ‘issues’ with the whole thing.
- Are their children adorable little scamps or perfect little angels?
- My son is such a scamp for not telling me beforehand that you were coming over to dine with us tonight!
- He's a bit of a charming scamp, a perfect fit for the exuberant, free-wheeling '60s.
- Nothing new there, you might reply, you cheeky young scamps, and I'm hardly in much of a position to persuade you otherwise.
- While their classmates were courting concussion with head-banging, these young scamps would borrow equipment from electronic stores to ‘test them out’, use them to make music, then exchange them for different items.
- So, if you're in the Manchester area and you see someone with their fingers tightly crossed, it may not be because some cheeky young scamps have been playing games with superglue.
- A young scamp in the comments box gently chided me for the fact that none of my favourites were recorded later than the 1980's.
- We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch.
- If the little scamp tries anything, I'll be on his throat in a second, as will these guards around here.
- Apparently, many underage Korean scamps borrow adults' resident registration numbers and credit card numbers to log onto adult sites.
- He tells us when he has a hangover, and he swears a lot, the scamp.
- The DVD features the entire first season, 13 episodes, that find the four scamps in every imaginable sort of scrape.
- That's why - in a recent internal e-mail sent round the publishing company - those star-beckoning scamps placed a well-known musician atop their priority list.
- A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery.
- One of the main differences we'll find it in is the way the familiar angels and devils are caricatured in a innocent-looking style, but that's deceiving; they are scamps, mischievous and even violent characters.
- You may baulk at forking out your hard-earned cash for these extravagantly self-obsessed, petulant, little scamps.
- Everything he's been through, no matter what life throws at him, he's still a little scamp, who loves his family and behaves like any other intelligent, sometimes naughty boy.
- Dad's well aware, then, that the little scamps can't give up their penchant for… water balloons.
Synonyms rascal, monkey, devil, imp, rogue, wretch, mischief-maker, troublemaker, prankster informal scallywag, horror, monster, terror, holy terror British informal perisher, pickle Irish informal spalpeen Northern English informal tyke, scally North American informal varmint, hellion dated rip archaic rapscallion, scapegrace 2West Indian A wicked or worthless person; a rogue. that man was a scamp, a damn thief Example sentencesExamples - In that way, it's more noble than a lot of these kinds of movies: you can make an honest man out of a scamp without making him less of a man.
Origin Mid 18th century (denoting a highwayman): from obsolete scamp 'rob on the highway', probably from Middle Dutch schampen 'slip away', from Old French eschamper. Early usage (still reflected in West Indian English) was derogatory. Nowadays most scamps are children but in the 18th century a scamp was a much more serious proposition—a highwayman. In the 19th century the original sense moderated into ‘a swindler, cheat’, a derogatory use still in existence in Caribbean English. The word probably derives from early Dutch schampen ‘to slip away’. This may also be the source of scamper (late 17th century) although Italian scampare ‘decamp’ is an alternative source. The first recorded sense was ‘run away’. It was very common between 1687 and 1700, and may have been military slang.
Rhymes amp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, damp, encamp, gamp, lamp, ramp, samp, stamp, tamp, tramp, vamp verb skampskæmp [with object]dated Do (something) in a perfunctory or inadequate way. Example sentencesExamples - This is the most interesting aspect of Harvey's story and it is unfortunately scamped.
- Hence it has happened and will happen again, that work which has been undertaken at unremunerative rates has been ‘scamped’ to make it pay.
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps the same word as scamp1, but associated in sense with the verb skimp. nounskampskæmp informal 1A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likable or amusing way. Example sentencesExamples - If the little scamp tries anything, I'll be on his throat in a second, as will these guards around here.
- He's a bit of a charming scamp, a perfect fit for the exuberant, free-wheeling '60s.
- A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery.
- A young scamp in the comments box gently chided me for the fact that none of my favourites were recorded later than the 1980's.
- He tells us when he has a hangover, and he swears a lot, the scamp.
- Apparently, many underage Korean scamps borrow adults' resident registration numbers and credit card numbers to log onto adult sites.
- My son is such a scamp for not telling me beforehand that you were coming over to dine with us tonight!
- Everything he's been through, no matter what life throws at him, he's still a little scamp, who loves his family and behaves like any other intelligent, sometimes naughty boy.
- Nothing new there, you might reply, you cheeky young scamps, and I'm hardly in much of a position to persuade you otherwise.
- The DVD features the entire first season, 13 episodes, that find the four scamps in every imaginable sort of scrape.
- The cheating scandal upset Maxwell and Anthony so much that they put salt in his sugar, the naughty scamps.
- Dad's well aware, then, that the little scamps can't give up their penchant for… water balloons.
- So, if you're in the Manchester area and you see someone with their fingers tightly crossed, it may not be because some cheeky young scamps have been playing games with superglue.
- Are their children adorable little scamps or perfect little angels?
- While the uber-gathering is undoubtedly for a highly worthwhile cause, both Noel and Damon have raised their hands like cheeky classroom scamps and announced that they have a few ‘issues’ with the whole thing.
- We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch.
- One of the main differences we'll find it in is the way the familiar angels and devils are caricatured in a innocent-looking style, but that's deceiving; they are scamps, mischievous and even violent characters.
- You may baulk at forking out your hard-earned cash for these extravagantly self-obsessed, petulant, little scamps.
- That's why - in a recent internal e-mail sent round the publishing company - those star-beckoning scamps placed a well-known musician atop their priority list.
- While their classmates were courting concussion with head-banging, these young scamps would borrow equipment from electronic stores to ‘test them out’, use them to make music, then exchange them for different items.
Synonyms rascal, monkey, devil, imp, rogue, wretch, mischief-maker, troublemaker, prankster - 1.1 A wicked or worthless person; a rogue.
Example sentencesExamples - In that way, it's more noble than a lot of these kinds of movies: you can make an honest man out of a scamp without making him less of a man.
Origin Mid 18th century (denoting a highwayman): from obsolete scamp ‘rob on the highway’, probably from Middle Dutch schampen ‘slip away’, from Old French eschamper. Early usage (still reflected in West Indian English) was derogatory. verbskæmpskamp [with object]dated Do (something) in a perfunctory or inadequate way. Example sentencesExamples - Hence it has happened and will happen again, that work which has been undertaken at unremunerative rates has been ‘scamped’ to make it pay.
- This is the most interesting aspect of Harvey's story and it is unfortunately scamped.
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps the same word as scamp, but associated in sense with the verb skimp. |