scamper
Americanverb (used without object)
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to run or go hastily or quickly.
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to run playfully about, as a child.
noun
verb
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to run about playfully
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(often foll by through) to hurry quickly through (a place, task, book, etc)
noun
Other Word Forms
- scamperer noun
Etymology
Origin of scamper
Example Sentences
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With two needed from two balls, Wildermuth slashed the penultimate delivery to backward point and a misfield allowed him to scamper back for a second, finishing unbeaten on 110 off 54.
From BBC
Thought and feeling bubble up beneath visible restraint—she’ll let a nervous glance scamper this way or that, or wear a smile that’s still crimped at the edges amid the teasing interplay of her peers.
Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.
Woo scampers up to the troll holding Autumn and starts throwing tiny punches at his ankle—but Autumn’s captor doesn’t even seem to feel it.
From Literature
The long-lost scamp had become a frequent visitor once more, usually with an adorable troika of squirrel babies scampering behind, and another grown-up-sized squirrel, too.
From Literature
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