Scamper

Definition: Scamper

Scamper

Noun

1. Rushing about hastily in an undignified way.

Verb

1. To move about or proceed hurriedly: "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scamper" was first used: 1687. (references)

Synonyms: Scamper

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Crosswords: Scamper

Scamper the Penguin (1989)

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Books

• Naughty Scamper Meets the Bush Monster (reference)

• Scamper (reference)

• Scamper on (reference)

• Scamper Squirrel Goes to Camp (reference)

• Scamper Strategies: Fundamental Activities for Narrative Development (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Adventures of Scamper the Peng (reference)

• Scamper the Penguin (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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The cotton field scurried with waking life, the quick flutter of morning birds feeding on the ground, the scamper over the clods of disturbed rabbits

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Expressions using "scamper": go for a scamper ♦ scamper about ♦ scamper around ♦ scamper away ♦ scamper off. Additional references.

Albanian

sy i shpejtë (scan), shfaqje e shpejtë, vrapim i shpejtë, arratisje (break, debacle, decampment, elopement, escape, escapement, evasion, flight, leg-bail, scape). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرار (bolt, elopement, escapade, escape, flight, stampede), ‏عدو ركض (jogging), ‏عدو (adversary, enemy, foe, hostile, inimical, race, running), ‏ركض فرارا, ‏ركض ببطء (jog). (various references)

Bulgarian 

галоп (gallop), офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut, cut away, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, nip off, run off, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), лудуване (frolic), бягане (cut, run, running, scurry, scuttle), игра (acting, game, hand, pastime, play, recreation, slack, sport). (various references)

Chinese 

疾走 (scurry). (various references)

Czech

prásknout do bot (bunk off, scamper off), poskakovat (Bob, bounce, cavort, flounce, gambol, hop, hop about, scamper about, skip), odpelášit (hare away, scamper away), jít se probìhnout (go for a scamper), hopkat (scamper around). (various references)

Farsi 

فرارباشتاب , پروازسریع , چهارنعل دودیدن , چهارنعل (Canter, Gallop), گریز (Allusion, Desertion, Digression, Escape, Evasion, Flight, Guy, Jink, Scuttle, Subterfuge, Truancy), بتاخت رفتن . (various references)

French

trottiner (scurry), trottinement (scurrying), gambader, galopade. (various references)

German

trippeln (dance around, Frisk, mince, scurry, scuttle, to trip, toddle, trip), trappeln (clatter, patter), huschen (dart, flash, flit, fly, scurry, shoo), hetzen (agitate, bait, chevy, dash, drive, hound, hurry, race, rush, set on, tear, to chevy, to scamper), herumhüpfen (bounce, caper, prance, skip about, to scamper), flitzen (dash, flit, hare, scud, shift, speed, streak, to flit, whiz, whizz, zip). (various references)

Greek 

φεύγω δρομαίωσ, τρεχάλα (at a run). (various references)

Hebrew 

לברוח (escape, flee, fling off, get away, make haste, make off, run, run away, run off, take flight, take to ones heels, turn tail). (various references)

Hungarian

iramodás, megugrás, kontár (amateurish, botch, bungler, cobbler, dabbler, duffer, spoiler, tinker, to slubber, unworkmanlike), gyors szökellés, fuser (bungler, gimp, lunk, lunkhead, slob, slubberer, spoiler, tinker). (various references)

Italian

sgambettare (about, kick, toddle), scorrazzata, scappare (abscond, bolt, break, elope, escape, flee, get away, pop off, run away, rush, slip), zampettare, correre agile e veloce. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逸走 (escape, scamper away, scud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっそう (a clean sweep, a pair, all the more, escape, master sergeant, much more, one ship or boat, scamper away, scud, still more). (various references)

Pig Latin

amperscay.(various references)

Portuguese

romper em correria, rápida corrida, passeio rápido, galope (gallop, gallopade, galop, lope, pelt, tantivy), galopada (gallopade), corrida alegre e viva, correr rapidamente, correr precipitadamente (scurry), abalar (affect, concuss, convulse, depolarise, jar, jolt, move, shake, shock, stir, toss, unfix, unsettle). (various references)

Romanian

mers grãbit (scuttle, trot), merge foarte repede, grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, haste, hastiness, hurry, pelt, press, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, speed), fugi (career, chase, collide, course, dash, disappear, elope, escape, flee, fly, fly off, give way, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight), fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), cãlãtorie rapidã, alerga (career, chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scour, spank, urge, walk). (various references)

Russian 

мчаться (hurtle, rip, scampered, scampering, scurry, slip along), быстрый бег, бегство (bunk, escape, escapement, flight, getaway, leg-bail, scape), беглое чтение, поспешное бегство. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trčati (jog, race, run), koji radi površno, bežanje (leg-bail, runaway). (various references)

Spanish

corretear (patter about, pursue). (various references)

Swedish

skena iväg, rusa (beetle off, career, chase, dart, dash, flit, flounce, fly, gallop, hare, hurry, hurtle, lunge, pelt, plunge, race, rush, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, sprint, stampede, storm, streak, tear, whirl away, zap). (various references)

Turkish

tüyme (skedaddle), koşmak (career, clip, course, harness, jog, leg, leg it, run, rush, scamper about, scour, scurry, shin, team, yoke), kaçma (break, bunk, elopement, escape, flight, getaway, lapse, scuttle), acele ile gitmek (bundle off, fly off, hotfoot, hotfoot it, nip). (various references)

Ukrainian

їзда галопом, бігати (chase), пробіжка, побіжний перегляд, перечитувати нашвидку. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phi ngựa đi chơi sự đi lướt qua, sự chạy vụt, sự cưỡi ngựa xem hoa, sự đọc lướt qua. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scamper": scampered, scampering, scampers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scamper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scampe, scamped, scampoo, Scapera, scomer, shamper, swamper. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: campers.

-1 letter: camper, capers, cramps, crapes, creams, escarp, macers, pacers, parsec, recaps, remaps, scrape, scream, secpar, spacer.

-2 letters: acmes, acres, apers, apres, asper, cames, camps, caper, capes, cares, carps, carse, cramp, crams, crape, craps, cream, escar, macer, maces, marcs, mares, marse, maser, pacer, paces, pares, parse, pears, perms, prams, prase, presa, races, ramps, rapes.

+1 letter: capsomer, champers, clampers, compares, mesocarp, parecism, sapremic, scampers.

+2 letters: campfires, camphires, camporees, capmakers, capsomers, compadres, comparers, copremias, creamcups, impacters, mesocarps, parecisms, primacies, scampered, spermatic, supremacy.

+3 letters: campestral, compacters, creampuffs, escarpment, graphemics, imprecates, marchpanes, mascarpone, megaparsec, megasporic, mercaptans, metacarpus, pacemakers, pachyderms, paramedics, parchments, pharmacies, rampancies, scampering, spermaceti, supermacho.

+4 letters: amphimacers, atmospheric, camelopards, campaigners, camphorates, champerties, champertous, compensator, complainers, compradores, comradeship, escarpments, importances, intercampus, macrophages, macrophytes, mascarpones, masterpiece, megaparsecs, metacarpals, microphages, parameciums, parenchymas, peacemakers, permanences, preachments, proclaimers, pyromancies, spectrogram, spermacetis, spermatheca, spermicidal, supermachos, supremacies, supremacist, temperances.