scampy

comparative more scampy · superlative most scampy

1. scampish

   Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant.

   1988 September 30, Henry Sheehan, “The White Woman's Burden”, in Chicago Reader

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   Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands.

   1901, Miles Franklin, “One Grand Passion”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 101

   The woman had collected a lot of stray dogs and I was petting the dogs and all of a sudden I looked at one--he was kind of scampy with a know-it-all look on his face--and I saw he was holding my diaphragm in his mouth.

   1991 December 20, Toni Schlesinger, “Heart Beat”, in Chicago Reader