scamp

scamp
scamper, n.scampingly, adv.scampish, adj.scampishly, adv.scampishness, n.
/skamp/, n.
1. an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
2. a playful, mischievous, or naughty young person; upstart.
3. a grouper, Mycteroperca phenax, of Florida: so called from its habit of stealing bait.
v.t.
4. to do or perform in a hasty or careless manner: to scamp work.
[1775-85; obs. scamp to travel about idly or for mischief, perh. < obs. D schampen to be gone < OF escamper to DECAMP]

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