_scamp_
Verb.
Pronunciation: skæmp.
Etymology: of uncertain origin.
Preterite tense:
scamped; preterite participle: scamped.
Present
participle: scamping.
Transitively: to do
or make (something, the direct object being often the word work) in either a
neglectful, or skimpy or hasty manner; to do or make it by scrimping on
materials.
Synonyms: to huddle (something)
over; to huddle through.
Antonyms: to
elaborate, overwork.
Translation: chapucear, in Spanish; acciarpare, in Italian; bâcler, in French.
Middle-class houses are “scamped” in the same manner. The
walls are so thin that you can hear in one house the conversation of people in
the next.
W. Chambers – R. Chambers… Chambers’s papers…
[…] he wanted the wages, though he knew he “scamped” the work.
Henry Mayhew – A. Mayhew… The
image of his father
We know […], that republications of respectable books are thus often scamped up in the most disgraceful
manner; and it cannot be otherwise. With no revision but that of the printer,
what else can be expected? Typographical errors abound.
William Stowell… The Eclectic review
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Scamped (participial adjective):
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and architecture hurried
or scamped is never worth the
money it costs.
James Braid… The
Musical world, vol. 36
Intransitively: to be
niggardly; to behave niggardly; to do or make one’s work by scrimping on
materials; to behave as a scamper.
Antonym: to be
prodigal.
Synonyms: to
niggardize, spare, scrimp, skimp.
[…] there is no evidence that the
builders were either trying to scamp
on
the dimensions or quality of materials, or that they were trying to crowd more
and smaller houses onto their plots than the agreements allowed.
H. Dyos – Michael Wolff… The Victorian City
English words
derived from SCAMP: scamper (noun), scamping (noun, adj.)
