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▪ I. scampering, vbl. n.|ˈskæmpərɪŋ|
[f. scamper v. + -ing1.]
In the senses of the verb.
1691Mountfort Greenwich Park ii. iii. 22 Sir Tho... Let's have a Dance... La. Haz. I think we had better Dance at Home... Sir Tho. Agreed, then we'll first to Supper, and then for a Rubbers at scampring. 1765Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 677 Nobody else can know in what instances I have restrained its [sc. a horse's] scamperings. 1843Macaulay Ess., Mme. D'Arblay ⁋40 A cry of ‘The King!’ was set up. A general scampering followed. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes 25 A terrible noise of scrambling and scratching and scampering in the very room beside her.
▪ II. scampering, ppl. a.|ˈskæmpərɪŋ|
[f. scamper v. + -ing2.]
In senses of the verb.
1859K. Cornwallis Panorama of New World I. 199 A scampering crowd of agile young runners. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly Prol. 1 In these days of Pacific Railways and scampering Globe Trotters. |