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scamp

/skamp/US // skæmp //UK // (skæmp) //

流浪汉,流浪者,流氓,流氓行为

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
    • : a playful, mischievous, or naughty young person; upstart.
    • : a grouper, Mycteroperca phenax, of Florida: so called from its habit of stealing bait.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to do or perform in a hasty or careless manner: to scamp work.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Fortnum is well behaved, but Mason appears to be a little more of a scamp.

  • Meanwhile Mr. Crow had been thinking rapidly—for he was a quick-witted old scamp.

  • There was a scamp of a father who had "not been very kind" to Angel, and had been lost, or had thoughtfully lost himself.

  • Do you remember a young girl and a tall scamp who wanted to carry you along to Palestine?

  • The impudent scamp who gave that order deserves to receive as many lashes as his horse has hairs in his tail!

  • I saw Mary Belle transformed from an ordinary playful scamp of a lamb to a primped and perfect darling of the show-ring.