- scamp⇄noun a worthless or unprincipled person; rascal; rogue.
Ex. Old Dodd had a scamp of a son who had run away from school (Margaret Kennedy). - scamp⇄noun scamper.
- scamp⇄scamp, noun, verb.
- scamp⇄v.i. (U.S.) to be stingy; skimp.
- scamp⇄v.t. to do (work) in a hasty, careless manner.
Ex. I will undertake to say he never scamped a job in the whole course of his life (Samuel Butler). The motivations of the novel are scamped in the film (Newsweek).