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scampy

adj

Etymology

From scamp + -y.

  1. derived from *excappare✻
  2. derived from escamper
  3. derived from schampen
  4. suffixed as scampy — “scamp + y”

Definitions

  1. scampish

    • Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands.
    • Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant.
    • The woman had collected a lot of stray dogs and I was petting the dogs and all of a sudden I looked at one--he was kind of scampy with a know-it-all look on his face--and I saw he was holding my diaphragm in his mouth.

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