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scamper

[ skam-per ]

/ ˈskæm pər /

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verb (used without object)

to run or go hastily or quickly.

to run playfully about, as a child.

noun

a scampering; a quick run.

Origin of scamper

1680–90; obsolete scamp to go (see scamp) + -er⁶

Words nearby scamper

scambaiting, scamillus, scammer, scammony, scamp, scamper, scampi, scamster, scamto, scan, scan.

Example sentences from the Web for scamper

It is interesting to note in the Waggoners' Accounts which of the teamsters apparently took a horse and "scamper'd."

Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 |Don H. Berkebile
The third man had sufficient command of his wits to take to his heels and scamper away.

With Drake on the Spanish Main |Herbert Strang
Only ten feet away lay the chestnut-haired girl who "was a great one to scamper."

Chicago's Awful Theater Horror |Various
With frantic haste they fix the hook into the lattice-work beneath the porch and scamper back.

Back Home |Eugene Wood

He happened to be on deck when the masts were carried away, but managed to scamper off without getting hurt.

Voyage of the Liberdade |Captain Joshua Slocum

British Dictionary definitions for scamper

scamper

/ (ˈskæmpə) /

verb (intr)

to run about playfully

(often foll by through) to hurry quickly through (a place, task, book, etc)

noun

the act of scampering

Derived forms of scamper

scamperer, noun

Word Origin for scamper

C17: probably from scamp (vb); see scamp 1