scamp

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
    — "He is a scamp, he is and it isn't difficult to find his tracks and signs of his reckless shooting, for he can never wait, like other folks, till the birds have had a good start at their play."
  2. A preliminary design sketch.
    — It did not matter that the scamp (simple illustrative line-drawing) it contained could have been done in the pub the night before.
  3. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion. dated
    — 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.

词形变化

scamps plural scamps present,singular,third-person scamping participle,present scamped participle,past scamped past scamps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
foot-scamp royal scamp scamphood scampish scampsman scampy

词源

词源 1
From Middle Dutch schampen (“slip away”), from Old French escamper (“to run away, to make one's escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. Compare escape.
词源 2
Perhaps related to sense 1, but influenced by the later attested skimp; however, compare Icelandic skamta (“to dole out, to stint”), which is related to skammur (“short”).
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