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Scamp

noun
1.
One who is playfully mischievous.  Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag.
verb
1.
Perform hastily and carelessly.





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"Scamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... in two, when the face riveted his attention. It was a face that once seen could never be forgotten. Pale and sweet it looked up at him. It was part of the clean, better life that he was trying to lead. It made him, all in the flash of an eye, see what a mean, low scamp he was to— ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... sang laughingly. "Didn't the little scamp give us a fine scare, though! But he woke ...
— Glory and the Other Girl • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... of life, but, among the different divisions which the nature of the service generally threw a good deal together, there was not so much as a mule or a donkey that was not known to each individual, and its absence noticed; nor a scamp of a boy, or a common Portuguese trull, who was not as particularly inquired after, as if the fate of the campaign ...
— Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands - from 1809 to 1815 • Captain J. Kincaid
... down there and gave the place a look-over. The South always affects me like a—well, a lotus flower—sleeping but filled with wonderful dreams. It gets me! Why, after seeing Ridge House I even went so far as to buy a piece of land known as Blowing Rock Clearing. I've planned, if that scamp of a nephew of mine ever develops into a sawbones, to leave him in charge here and go down South myself and put up a shack on my clearing." Martin was watching Doris now from under his brows; he was talking against the silence that might engulf her again; seeking to hold her to a future ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock
... transaction whom I shall mention openly, is that old scamp and swindler, Gustavus Adolphus, thirteenth Earl of Crabs. This nobleman was one of the gentlemen of His Majesty's closet, and one with whom the revered monarch was on terms of considerable intimacy. A close regard had sprung ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray


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