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scampsman

noun

Etymology

From scamp + -s- + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as scampsman — “scamp + -s- + man”

Definitions

  1. highwayman

    • Now Oliver puts his blank nightcap on,¶ And every star its glim is hiding,¶ And forth to the heath is the scampsman gone,¶ His matchless cherry-black prancer riding;
    • Up comes some saucy kiddy, a scampsman on the hot, / But ere he pulls the trigger I am off just like a shot.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA