▪ I. scampering, vbl. n.
(ˈskæmpərɪŋ)
[f. scamper v. + -ing1.]
In the senses of the verb.
| 1691 Mountfort 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. 1765 Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 677 Nobody else can know in what instances I have restrained its [sc. a horse's] scamperings. 1843 Macaulay Ess., Mme. D'Arblay ¶40 A cry of ‘The King!’ was set up. A general scampering followed. 1865 G. 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.
| 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama of New World I. 199 A scampering crowd of agile young runners. 1876 Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly Prol. 1 In these days of Pacific Railways and scampering Globe Trotters. |