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English
Etymology
From scamp + -s- + man.
Noun
scampsman (plural scampsmen)
- (dated, slang) highwayman
1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, The Game of High Toby: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;
1846, James Henry, ed. Dixon, “The Trotting Horse”, in Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, page 244:Up comes some saucy kiddy, a scampsman on the hot, / But ere he pulls the trigger I am off just like a shot.
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