Definitions for SCAMP

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SCAMP scamp

Spelling: [skamp]

IPA: /skæmp/

Scamp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in SCAMP (acmps).

Definitions for SCAMP

noun

1. an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
2. a playful, mischievous, or naughty young person; upstart.
3. a grouper, Mycteroperca phenax, of Florida: so called from its habit of stealing bait.

verb (used with object)

1. to do or perform in a hasty or careless manner:

Origin of SCAMP

1775-85; obsolete scamp to travel about idly or for mischief, perhaps obsolete Dutch schampen to be gone Old French escamper to decamp

Examples for SCAMP

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

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

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

Fortnum is well behaved, but Mason appears to be a little more of a scamp.

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

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.

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

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

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