SCAMPISH

  

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SCAMPISH

Definition: SCAMPISH

SCAMPISH

Adjective

1. Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"SCAMPISH" is a common misspelling or typo for: scampi, snappish.

 

Synonyms within Context: SCAMPISH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vice

Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: SCAMPISH

Language Translations for "SCAMPISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shejtan (brat, devil, elfin, impish, mischievous, monkey, puckish, scallywag, sea cock, varmint, villain). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هارب (absconder, escape, fleet, receding, run away), ‏شارد (errant, erratic, inattentive, runaway, stray). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

калпазански, дяволит (impish, mischievous, pawky, perky, puckish). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nièemný (caitiff, contemptible, despicable, miscreated, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, vile, villainous, worthless). (various references)

   

French

  

fugueur, fugitif, affolé (scared). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csirkefogó (badmash, cad, gouge, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampishscay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

беспутный (dissolute, fast, gay, raffish). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ništavan (inane, naught, nought, nugatory, null, null and void, worthless), lupeški (villainous). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шахраюватий (dodgy, roguish). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xỏ lá (loopy, trickish, tricky), đểu cáng (caddish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SCAMPISH"

Words rhyming with "SCAMPISH" (pronounced 'Scamp"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCAMPISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-m-p-s-s"

-1 letter: chiasms, mishaps.

-2 letters: aspics, aspish, champs, chasms, chiasm, chimps, mishap, passim, phasic, phasis, scampi, scamps, schism, spahis, spicas.

-3 letters: amiss, aphis, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, campi, camps, caphs, champ, chams, chaps, chasm, chias, chimp, chips, hasps, machs, micas, picas, pimas, samps, scamp, scams, shams, shims, ships, simas, simps, smash, spahi, spams, spasm, spica.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-m-p-s-s"
 

+2 letters: mispatches.

 

+3 letters: metaphysics, phallicisms, pharmacists, physicalism, scyphistoma, symposiarch.

 

+4 letters: accomplishes, atmospherics, comradeships, musicianship, mycophagists, photomosaics, physicalisms, scyphistomae, scyphistomas, sycophantism, sympathetics, symposiarchs.

 

+5 letters: accomplishers, catastrophism, chairmanships, championships, cosmographies, craftsmanship, musicianships, parochialisms, psychosomatic, seismographic, sycophantisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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