Synonyms for scamp
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skamp |
| Phonetic Transcription : skæmp |
Top 10 synonyms for scamp Other synonyms for the word scamp
Définition of scamp
Origin :- 1782, "highway robber," probably from dialectal verb scamp "to roam" (1753, perhaps from 16c.), shortened from scamper. Used affectionately in sense "rascal" since 1808.
- noun rascal
- Go to your bedroom; and if you turn out a good-for-nothing and a scamp, it is no fault of mine.
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- I was a scamp—but a frolicsome scamp—and that is always a popular character.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- She could only trust to his being a scamp as her only hope of escape.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 » by Various
- He ought to have played the scamp; he should have acted in concert with the Rougons.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- "I'm looking for that scamp of a Marjolin," replied the artist.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- And I only wish I had my fingers this minute in the hair of the scamp that gave him the liquor.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- I saw that lawyer and I found out about—about the other scamp.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- Some scamp had filched it from one of the churches and was trying to sell it.
- Extract from : « War from the Inside » by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
- I wonder what she would have said if she had known that I was the 'scamp' that troubled her so much Monday.
- Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
- “That was a clever trick we played upon the scamp,” said he with a smile.
- Extract from : « Up the Forked River » by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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