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Scamp

noun

One who is playfully mischievous. Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag.

verb

Perform hastily and carelessly.

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"Scamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... mean to say is, that you have such a way of turning up when you're wanted very bad, that you're just the scamp to figure in a lot of story books; I wonder whether some simpleton won't undertake to use you that way. The only trouble will be that if he invents yarns about you, he'll make a fizzle of it, and, if he tells the truth, ...

— Footprints in the Forest • Edward Sylvester Ellis

... son walk in with the minister, Aunt "Ca'line's" delight was boundless. "La! Brothah Dokesbury," she exclaimed, "wha'd you fin' dat scamp?" ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... medicines. Gordon himself was too full of interest in the horse trade to remark anything. At times he chuckled to himself. Now and then he would burst out anew in a great peal of laughter. "Hang it all! I don't like to be done any better than any other man, but that little red-haired scamp was clever and no mistake," he said, "showing me that little sore. I believe he had sandpapered the poor beast on purpose. He took me in as neatly as I ever saw anything done in my life. Well, Elliot, you wait and see me get even with Sam Tucker. I have been waiting ...

— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... was not a big enough scamp for the militia, because you have to be a great blackguard before you can get ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... as good as she was pretty. To say the truth, the time had been when Bessy had not felt unkindly towards the yellow-haired lad; but his conduct had long put a gulf between them, which only the conceit of a scamp would have attempted to pass. However, he flattered himself that he "knew what the lasses meant when they said no;" and on the strength of this knowledge he presumed far enough to elicit a rebuff so ...

— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade

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