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