scamp
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /skæmp/, /skamp/
scamp (plural scamps)
- A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
- Synonyms: swindler, rogue, Thesaurus:troublemaker
- A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- My nephew is a little scamp who likes to leave lighted firecrackers under the lawnchairs of his dozing elders.
- While walking home from the bar, he was set upon by a bunch of scamps who stole his hat.
- French: galopin, morpion
- German: Schlingel, Schlawiner
- Russian: шалу́н
scamp (scamps, present participle scamping; past and past participle scamped)
- (dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.
- 1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry
- His work was always first-rate. There was no scamping about it. Everything that he did was thoroughly good and honest.
- 1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry
- German: pfuschen
scamp (plural scamps)
- (advertising) A preliminary design sketch.
- 2007, Adrian Mackay, Practice of Advertising (page 124)
- It did not matter that the scamp (simple illustrative line-drawing) it contained could have been done in the pub the night before.
- 2009, FCS: Advertising & Promotions L4 (page 25)
- From the scamps, the creative idea can be developed more fully into a proposal for an actual ad. This needs to be clear enough to present to the client.
- 2007, Adrian Mackay, Practice of Advertising (page 124)
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