The AI-powered English dictionary
plural scampers
A quick, light run. examples
third-person singular simple present scampers, present participle scampering, simple past and past participle scampered
(intransitive) To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner. quotations examples
[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
1791 (first performance), [Frederic] Reynolds, Notoriety: A Comedy, Dublin: […] P. Byrne, […], published 1792, Act IV, scene [i], page 43
The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.
1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co.; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June,
Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability.
2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)
One who skimps or does slipshod work. examples