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   scamp

   /skamp/

   noun

   • 1. a person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way: "some little scamp stuffed tissue paper in between the hammer and the bell"
   • 2. a wicked or worthless person; a rogue: West Indian "that man was a scamp, a damn thief"

   Word Origin mid 18th century (denoting a highwayman): from obsolete scamp ‘rob on the highway’, probably from Middle Dutch schampen ‘slip away’, from Old French eschamper. Early usage (still reflected in West Indian English) was derogatory.

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   • 1. scampish adjective

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   What is Scamp noun?

   • Definition of scamp noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary a child who enjoys playing tricks and causing trouble synonym scallywag Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English.

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   What does it mean to call a child a scamp?

   • If you call a child a scamp, you mean that they are naughty or disrespectful but you like them, so you find it difficult to be angry with them. Have some respect for me, you scamp! ...cheeky young scamps. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. 3. Caribbean derogatory Collins English Dictionary.

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   What is Scamp program?

   • SCAMP , which reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way. A commercial suite of programs for telescope and instrument control. This program plots planet positions, source catalogs, and images.

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   Will you hit a scamp?

   • You will hit a few scamps, but you will hit a great many more innocent men. I am in full agreement with him that education is a form of investment which we cannot scamp. The whole countryside is being scamped in its services and generally ill-treated.

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   Scamp is an informal word for a naughty or disrespectful child or a mischievous person. It can also mean a dishonest or contemptible person in Caribbean English, or a verb meaning to do something in a hasty or careless manner.

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   Scamp is an old-fashioned word for a child that behaves badly in a funny way. Learn more about its meaning, synonyms and usage with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.

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