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"word": "惡棍"
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"sense": "rascal, swindler",
"word": "流氓"
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"word": "悪党"
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"word": "негодя́й"
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"word": "мерза́вец"
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"text": "My nephew is a little scamp who likes to leave lighted firecrackers under the lawnchairs of his dozing elders.",
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"text": "While walking home from the bar, he was set upon by a bunch of scamps who stole his hat.",
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"ref": "April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair",
"text": "Prince Harry idolized Diana more and understood her less. He would always be her baby, a scamp who was “thick” at his lessons and “naughty, just like me.” His emotions, like hers, were always simmering near the surface.\nadapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books",
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"sense": "mischievous youngster",
"word": "小鬼"
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"text": "1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry\nHis work was always first-rate. There was no scamping about it. Everything that he did was thoroughly good and honest."
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"(dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion."
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"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
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"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pretupvam",
"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
"word": "претупвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odfláknout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "flákat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odbýt"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odbývat"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "1. To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion",
"word": "pfuschen"
}
],
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}
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"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/æmp",
"Rhymes:English/æmp/1 syllable",
"en:Children",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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{
"form": "scamps",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"en:Advertising"
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{
"ref": "2007, Adrian Mackay, Practice of Advertising, page 124",
"text": "It did not matter that the scamp (simple illustrative line-drawing) it contained could have been done in the pub the night before.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, FCS: Advertising & Promotions L4, page 25",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A preliminary design sketch."
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"advertising",
"advertising#Noun"
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[
"design",
"design"
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"sketch"
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"(advertising) A preliminary design sketch."
],
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"advertising",
"business",
"marketing"
]
}
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"ipa": "/skamp/"
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{
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"tags": [
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"msg": "suspicious translation with ': ': {'lang': 'Chinese Mandarin', 'code': 'cmn', 'sense': 'rascal, swindler', 'word': ': 惡棍'}",
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"title": "scamp",
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