different between scamp vs scapegrace

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skæmp/, /skamp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schampen (“slip away”), from Old French escamper (“to run away, to make one's escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excampare (“decamp”), from Latin ex campo.

Noun

scamp (plural scamps)

1. A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.

   Synonyms: swindler, rogue; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker
2. A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to sense 1, but influenced by the later attested skimp; however, compare Icelandic skamta (“to dole out, to stint”), which is related to skammur (“short”).

Verb

scamp (third-person singular simple present scamps, present participle scamping, simple past and past participle scamped)

1. (dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.
   • 1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry

     His work was always first-rate. There was no scamping about it. Everything that he did was thoroughly good and honest.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

scamp (plural scamps)

1. (advertising) A preliminary design sketch.
   • 2007, Adrian Mackay, Practice of Advertising (page 124)

     It did not matter that the scamp (simple illustrative line-drawing) it contained could have been done in the pub the night before.

   • 2009, FCS: Advertising & Promotions L4 (page 25)

     From the scamps, the creative idea can be developed more fully into a proposal for an actual ad. This needs to be clear enough to present to the client.

Anagrams

• CAPMs, camps

English

Etymology

From scape +? grace

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ske?p??e?s/

Noun

scapegrace (plural scapegraces)

2. A wild and reckless person (especially a boy); a scoundrel.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:

     He is now laden with that superabundant energy which makes a fool of a man, and a scapegrace of a boy, and he wants to work it off.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:scapegrace.

Synonyms

• black sheep, rascal, rogue; see also Thesaurus:villain