scamp
Meanings
Plural: scamps
Noun
- one who is playfully mischievous
- A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
- A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- A preliminary design sketch.
Verb
- perform hastily and carelessly
- To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle Dutch schampen (“slip away”), from Old French escamper (“to run away, to make one's escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. Compare escape.
Synonyms
agitator, bad boy, bad news, bear, bhoy, blackguard, booger, boot boy, bovver boy, brat, brawler, breedbate, buffoon, bugger, bully, charva, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, firebrand, gadfly, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hool, hoolie, hooligan, hothead, imp, inciter, initiator, instigator, jackanapes, joker, jokester, kindle-coal, kindle-fire, knave, lout, makebate, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, monkey, ne'er-do-well, pixie, pot stirrer, practical joker, prankster, puck, rabble rouser, rakeshame, rantipole, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, roly-poly, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shit disturber, shit-stirrer, shitmonger, swindler, tearaway, thug, titivil, tough, troublemaker, undesirable, vandal, wag, wagpastie, wrangler, yob, yobbo
Scrabble Score: 11
scamp is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordscamp is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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