Scamp

Definition: Scamp

Scamp

Noun

1. One who is playfully mischievous.

Verb

1. Perform hastily and carelessly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scamp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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

SCAMP

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Scamp

Bad Man

Scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag.

Neglect

Scamp; trifle, fribble; do by halves; cut; slight; (despise); play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer; take a cursory view of.

Crosswords: Scamp

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps. (references; author: unknown)

The Scamp (1957)

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Books

• Adventures of Scamp (reference)

• Scamp and the Blizzard Boys (reference)

• Scamp of Saltillo (Loveswept, No 170) (reference)

• Sunny Side Up (A Mr Poggle and Scamp Book) (reference)

• Terribly Wonderful (A Mr Poggle and Scamp Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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F-16XL Scamp Flow Visualization Test. Credit: NASA.

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

Expression using "scamp": little scamp. Additional references.

Albanian

vagabond (bum, fugitive, landloper, loafer, prowler, rascal, rover, vagabond, wanderer), qerrata (mischievous, scallywag, scapegrace, son of a gun, varmint, wretch), kopuk (bad character, blackguard, cad, knave, miscreant, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scapegrace, varmint, villain), bëj shkel-e-shko (bungle, fumble, skimp). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتى لعوب, ‏من يعمل بدون إتقان, ‏وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, sassy, saucy, shameless, smart), ‏تعجل (haste, hurry), ‏عمل بتعجل (skimp), ‏عمل بدون إتقان, ‏النذل (rapscallion, rascal, scoundrel, villain), ‏الوغد (blackguard, kite, knave, loon, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scapegrace, scoundrel, villain). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разбойник (bandolero, brigand, desperado, felon, footpad, highwayman, outlaw, pad, robber, scoundrel, villain), хаймана (botcher, lad, sad dog, scapegrace, vagabond), калпазанин (rascal, rogue, sinner), претупвам (shuffle, shuffle through, slubber, slur), поразеник (dastard), дявол (demon, devil, fiend, hell-hound, minx). (various references)

Chinese 

� 赖. (various references)

Czech

ulièník (guttersnipe, nipper, ragamuffin, rascal, urchin), mizera (bastard, blighter, bugger, dog, horror, rascal, rat, scoundrel, stinker, villain). (various references)

Dutch

afraffelen (bungle, scamp one's work). (various references)

Esperanto

fini fuŝrapide (bungle, scamp one's work). (various references)

Farsi 

پرسه زدن (Knockabout, Prowl, Ramble, Roam, Rove, Swan), وررفتن (Hangaround, Jauk, Meddle, Paddle, Toy, Twiddle), عبوراچیزی رالمس کردن , ادم رذل (Knave, Makeshift, Rascal, Scalawag), بچه بدذات وشیطان . (various references)

Finnish

viikari (young rascal), poikanulikka (young rascal), nulikka (young rascal), hätiköidä (be in a hurry). (various references)

French

polisson, garnement, galopin, filou, coquin (scalawag, scapegrace, scoundrel), bâcleur, bâcler. (various references)

German

pfuschen (botch, bungle, come unstuck, fudge, screw up, slip up, spoil). (various references)

Greek 

μπερμπάντης (rogue, womaniser 2), προχειροφτιάχνω, παλιάνθρωποσ (blackguard, knave, miscreant, rascal, rotter, scalawag, scapegrace, scoundrel, skunk), παλιάνθρωπος (scoundrel), εκτελώ ατεχνώσ, αλήτησ (bum, hobo, hoodlum, lout, rapscallion, rascallion, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), τιποτένιοσ (chaffy, measly, paltry, petty, piddling, scummy, trashy, trifling, two-penny, worthless). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבצע ברשל� ות, שפל (base, degeneration, ebb, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, low tide, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, meek, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scabby, shabby, sordid, vile), קו� �"ס (japer, practical joker, prankster), � בז�" (cad, contemptible, despicable, despised, mean, mean-spirited, measly, nasty, ornery, shameful, sordid, villain, worm, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian

semmirekellõ (ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, reprobate, rotter), hanyagul dolgozik, csirkefogó (badmash, cad, gouge, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, scampish, scoundrel), összecsap (clash, patch up, polish off, tear off, to encounter, to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle things, to huddle things together, to huddle things up, to huddle through a piece of work, to hurtle, to knock together, to knock up, to scrum, to skimp, to slap together, to slobber, to slubber, to toss off). (various references)

Italian

peste (pest, plague, terror), monello (brat, guttersnipe, rascal, romp, scapegrace, urchin), canaglia (bounder, rascal, reprobate, riffraff, scoundrel, sod, villain), briccone (imp, knave, miscreant, rascal, rascally, rogue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ならず者 (but, but for, even so, except, hooligan, if, in case, it's not a big deal, it's not a problem, or something like that .., ruffian, something or other, things like ..., what's that?, without), 小坊主 (young priest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ならずもの (hooligan, ruffian), �"ぼうず (young priest). (various references)

Korean 

개구쟁이 (Brat, urchin). (various references)

Manx

streel (drab, fancy woman, loiterer, lounger, spendthrift, stroller, vagabond, vamp, vamp woman), jannoo dy neuchreaghnagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ampscay.(various references)

Portuguese

tratante (kite, knave, knavish, loon, ne'er-do-well, picaroon, rascal, rogue, roguish, scapegrace, sinner, sirrah, spalpeen, vagabond, wheeler-dealer), pirralho (bantling), patife (caitiff, cheat, crook, heavy, knave, mean-spirited, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, rascal, rascally, reprobate, rogue, rotter, scapegrace, scoundrel, scoundrelly, spalpeen, vagabond, villain, wretch), maroto (cheat, crook, dratted, kite, knave, rogue, roguish, scoundrel, spalpeen, wheeler-dealer), mariola (sirrah), fazer � toa, fazer � pressa, biltre (rogue, rotter, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel). (various references)

Romanian

ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), om de nimic (a bad egg, flibbertigibbet, jerk, kestrel, ne'er do well, nobody, scalawag, scoundrel), nulitate (cipher, dud, emptiness, nobody, nonentity, nullity), nemernic (base, cad, caitiff, felon, foul, rascal, rascally, reprobate, scoundrel, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), da peste cap (bedevil, disarrange, dish, overturn, rummage, snooker, turn smth. inside out), ciuruc (rubbish, wretch), cioflingar (straggler, tramp, vagabond), buleandrã (drab, draggle-tail, duster, rag, rags, rubber, shred, slattern, sticks, trollop), ştrengar (brat, rogue, romp, scapegrace, sprightly, urchin), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scoundrel), a-şi bate joc de (ballyrag, deride, have a fling at, hold in derision, lash, make fun of, mock, sneer, sport, trifle). (various references)

Russian 

негодяй (brat, coyote, dastard, gallows bird, gallows-bird, hound, knave, loon, man of Belial, miscreant, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scapegrace, scoundrel, spalpeen, villain, wretch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smandrljati (slubber), nitkov (blackguard, cad, cur, scoundrel), nestaško (hellion, rogue, snip, snippet, wag), hulja (blackguard, bugger, dastard, spalpeen), aljkavo uraditi. (various references)

Spanish

pícaro (crafty, imp, jester, naughty, picaroon, rascal, rascally, rogue, roguish, saucy, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, street smart, tinker). (various references)

Swedish

slyngel (jackanapes, loon, oaf, scoundrel), slarva med (huddle, neglect), skälm (knave, rascal, rogue), lymmel (backguard, cad, lout, rascal, scoundrel), fuska (botch, cheat, crib, dabble, faked, frame up). (various references)

Turkish

yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), yarım yamalak yapmak (fudge), yüzüne gözüne bulaştırmak (boggle, botch, bungle, crab, fluff, foozle, goof up, hash, hash up, make a hash of, make a mess of, make cock-up of smth., mess things up, mess up, muddle), haylaz (abandoned, good for nothing, idle, lazy, naughty, rapscallion, shiftless), afacan (guttersnipe, imp, impish, little monster, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, pickle, puckish, rascal, urchin). (various references)

Ukrainian

тинятися (dangle, expatiate, fool about, gad, go about, hack around, knock about, knock around, maroon, muck about, putter, roam, sling about, slouch about, slouch along, slouch around, traipse, wait about, wait around), крутій (pettifogger, racketeer, snipe), грабувати (despoil, hold up, loot, overrun, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, rape, reive, spoliate), нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, shack, skulk, spalpeen, waster), працювати недбало. (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẻ xỏ lá (tricker), kẻ đểu cáng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scamp": scamped, scamper, scampered, scampering, scampers, scampi, scampies, scamping, scampish, scamps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scamp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accomp, sapm, scama, scampe, scampy, scamu, scap, sceap, scfm, scham, Schaup, Scimp, scm, scramp, scump, secam, shamp, sicam, Siccama, skam, skamp, skemp, slamp, svamp. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: camps.

-1 letter: amps, camp, cams, caps, macs, maps, pacs, pams, samp, scam, spam.

-2 letters: amp, asp, cam, cap, mac, map, mas, pac, pam, pas, sac, sap, spa.

-3 letters: am, as, ma, pa.

+1 letter: campos, campus, champs, clamps, cramps, scampi, scamps.

+2 letters: campers, compass, copalms, decamps, encamps, impacts, madcaps, mobcaps, mudcaps, plasmic, pomaces, psalmic, scamped, scamper.

+3 letters: apomicts, camphols, camphors, campiest, campings, campions, campongs, campsite, campused, campuses, capsicum, capsomer, champacs, champaks, champers, clampers, compacts, compares, comparts, corpsman, crampits, crampons, emplaces, escapism, matchups, mesocarp, midspace, mispatch, misplace, misspace, mudpacks, oilcamps, pacifism, panicums, parecism, pemicans, sapremic, scampers, scampies, scamping, scampish, spaceman, spacemen, unclamps.