Definitions for scamps

scamps scamp

Spelling: [skamp]
IPA: /skæmp/

Scamps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in scamps (acmpss).

Definitions for scamps

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 scamps

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 scamps

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for scamps
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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