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scamper
[ skam-per ]
/ ˈskæm pər /
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verb (used without object)
to run or go hastily or quickly.
to run playfully about, as a child.
noun
a scampering; a quick run.
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Origin of scamper
1680–90; obsolete
scamp to go (see
scamp) +
-er6Words nearby scamper
scambaiting,
scamillus,
scammer,
scammony,
scamp,
scamper,
scampi,
scamster,
scamto,
scan,
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Words related to scamper
bolt,
dart,
hurry,
romp,
scoot,
scurry,
scuttle,
skip,
sprint,
trot,
zip,
flee,
fly,
hasten,
hie,
race,
shoot,
skedaddle,
speed,
tear How to use scamper in a sentence
Sauteur d’Alfort rabbits aren’t the only animal to adopt an odd scamper if there’s a mutation to this gene, known as RORB.
With faces painted and bandannas wrapped around their heads, pro-Morsi kids scamper around the Rabaa mosque sit-in.
The children scamper around the empty clinic lobby in tiaras, filling the place with laughter.
When fighting flares over Gaza, world leaders and pundits scamper to the same old and feeble solution: a ceasefire.
Still, they scamper after their generalissimo in the end, and meanwhile he is much too dignified to look back.
A great scamper ensued, as you may imagine, and then from each German trench burst out a heavy rifle fire.
Herds of deer scamper across its grassy slopes, and afford excellent stalking to the hospitable owner and his guests.
But how those astounded artillery men—those of them who could run at all—did scamper out of there.
There was a quick scamper of feet as Will stepped out, then silence!
British Dictionary definitions for scamper
verb (intr)
to run about playfully
(often foll by through) to hurry quickly through (a place, task, book, etc)
Derived forms of scamper
scamperer, nounWord Origin for scamper
C17: probably from scamp (vb); see scamp 1
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