scamp

[ skamp ]

SEE DEFINITION OF scamp

nounrascal

Synonyms for scamp

MOST RELEVANT

good-for-nothing

noun. person who is idle, worthless

imp

noun. mischievous child, small person

knave

noun. rascal

mischief-maker

noun. troublemaker

Word Origin & History

1782, "highway robber," probably from dialectal verb scamp "to roam" (1753, perhaps from 16c.), shortened from scamper. Used affectionately in sense "rascal" since 1808.

Example Sentences forscamp

Go to your bedroom; and if you turn out a good-for-nothing and a scamp, it is no fault of mine.

I was a scamp—but a frolicsome scamp—and that is always a popular character.

She could only trust to his being a scamp as her only hope of escape.

He ought to have played the scamp; he should have acted in concert with the Rougons.

"I'm looking for that scamp of a Marjolin," replied the artist.

And I only wish I had my fingers this minute in the hair of the scamp that gave him the liquor.

I saw that lawyer and I found out about—about the other scamp.

Some scamp had filched it from one of the churches and was trying to sell it.

I wonder what she would have said if she had known that I was the 'scamp' that troubled her so much Monday.

“That was a clever trick we played upon the scamp,” said he with a smile.

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