scamper

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  1. intransitive verb To run or go quickly and lightly: children scampering off to play.
  2. noun A quick light run or movement.

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  • The midshipmen enjoyed the scamper, and they had every reason to believe that they should get back in safety. —  The Three Commanders
  • It will do us good to have a scamper, and the unpacking can wait until the light goes." —  Big Game A Story for Girls
  • 'It's a scamper, and I hate running, and I'm sure you know I do. —  The Rectory Children
  • Even the little boy by his side forgot to play and scamper, and rather listlessly put the last touches to a wreath of autumn flowers which he meant to hang about the neck of the marble Faunus at the edge of the garden Where could Davus be? —  Roads from Rome
  • But Venn went on without much inconvenience to himself, and the course of his scamper was towards the Quiet Woman Inn. —  The Return of the Native
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scamper:   scampering
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably from Flemish schampeeren, frequentative of obsolete Dutch schampen, to run away, decamp, from Middle Dutch ontscampen, from Old French escamper, from Old Italian scampare, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre, from Latin ex campō, out of the field : ex, away; see ex- + campō, ablative of campus, field.

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  1. from scamp + -er.
  2. Freq. of ✓ *scamp, v., or, with retained infinitive termination, from Old French escamper, escape, flee: see scamp. Cf. scamble, shamble.
  3. from scamper, v.
 

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