Word Meanings - SCAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue. De Quincey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCAMP)

• Rascal
• Rogue
• scoundrel
• vagabond
• scamp
• villain
• knave
• Vagabond
• rascal
• cheat
• swindler
• sharper

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCAMP)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to SCAMP)

• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• SCAMPER
  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp,
• RASCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• SCOUNDRELISM
  The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• SCAMPAVIA
  A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• RASCALLY
  Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• VAGABONDISM
  Vagabondage.
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• ROGUE
  A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons. They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the
• VAGABONDIZE
  To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• DISCAMP
  To drive from a camp. Holland.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• BROGUES
  Breeches. Shenstone.
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.