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scamperer|ˈskæmpərə(r)| [f. scamper v. + -er1.] One who scampers; † ? a street ruffian.
1712Steele Spect. No. 276 ⁋3 A very gay..old Man..who has been, he tells me, a Scowrer, a Scamperer, a Breaker of Windows [etc.]. 1802M. Edgeworth Manœuvring vi. (1809) 149 This ever idle, ever busy scamperer. 1804Hull Advertiser 4 Feb. 3/3 A gang of scamperers. 1871Tyndall Forms of Water §14 ⁋123 They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known. |