What does scampy mean?
Scampy means scampish.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
scampish.
Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands.
Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant.
The woman had collected a lot of stray dogs and I was petting the dogs and all of a sudden I looked at one--he was kind of scampy with a know-it-all look on his face--and I saw he was holding my diaphragm in his mouth.
Use scampy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scampy means scampish.
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Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands.
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