scampsman
nounEtymology From scamp + -s- + man.
- Now Oliver puts his blank nightcap on,¶ And every star its glim is hiding,¶ And forth to the heath is the scampsman gone,¶ His matchless cherry-black prancer riding;1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, The Game of High Toby:
- Up comes some saucy kiddy, a scampsman on the hot, / But ere he pulls the trigger I am off just like a shot.1846, James Henry, ed. Dixon, “The Trotting Horse”, in Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, page 244: