scamp
noun [ C ]
old-fashioned us
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Meaning of scamp in English
Examples of scamp
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Both films are dark success stories about cheery local fixtures who betray their friends, but still come across as lovable scamps.
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But this was a new and delirious experience for the merry little scamps in harness.
From Project Gutenberg
I tried to get a good look at the honorable scamp's eye, but he evidently did not recognize me.
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You ought to have prevented your grandmother from marrying a scamp for a second husband.
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He wears gold earrings, and he lives by doing nothing, hanging on to women, who are fools about these good-looking scamps.
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The little scamp seemed thoroughly to enjoy his fright.
From Project Gutenberg
He had opened and read letters intrusted to him for mailing, and had proved himself generally a faithless scamp and an unconscionable liar.
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I was such a fool about him, and showed it so plain that it turned the old scamp's head.
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Go to your bedroom; and if you turn out a good-for-nothing and a scamp, it is no fault of mine.
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My scamp can't have any claim on her to hinder of it!
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Yes, there are three or four of the scamps.
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She ought to know that only a fool or a scamp could make such an absurd proposal.
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You could always turn them round your finger, you scamp.
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