What (who) is Scamp - definition
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Scamp (disambiguation); SCAMP; SCAMP (disambiguation)
scamp
(scamps)
If you call a boy a scamp, you mean that he is naughty or disrespectful but you like him, so you find it difficult to be angry with him. (INFORMAL)
Have some respect for me, you scamp!
= rascal
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scamp
n.
Rogue, rascal, cheat, knave, swindler, sharper, trickster, scoundrel, villain, scapegrace, worthless fellow.
Scamp
·noun A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.
II. Scamp ·adj To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.
Examples of use of Scamp
1. The fishermen first noticed the big mako because it kept eating grouper and scamp they had hooked.
2. "However, during the course of the day they would scamp back and forth gaining more confidence." Western lowland gorillas are the biggest of all primates.
3. Bridge"? Or Robert Redford as the scamp old–timer in "Nobody‘s Fool"? Newman let himself be old in 1'82‘s "The Verdict." He was in his late 50s at the time.
4. "King Kong," starring Jack Black as scamp showman Carl Denham and Naomi Watts as that blond bundle of shrieks, Ann Darrow, is the biggest big movie since "Titanic." It‘s certainly the biggest romance, even if it happens to be an interspecies one.
5. Jeff Peterson, 3', sat in the briefing room with his feet up on the table, watching the puppet movie "Team America: World Police." Peterson was a full–time Air Force reservist from Arizona, known as Spanky because he resembles the scamp from "The Little Rascals." He was passing a six–week stint with other reservists he called "old farts." In three days they would head home, leaving behind the smell of burning sewage and the sound of giant camel spiders crunching mouse bones.