Rascal vs. Scamp

A dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.

Sometimes diminutive: a cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.

Example: ‘That little rascal bit me!’; ‘If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.’;

(Papua New Guinea) A member of a criminal gang.

(archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.

One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.

Example: ‘He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal.’; ‘Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal.’;

A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.

Example: ‘For I have sense to serve my turn in store,And he's a rascal who pretends to more.’;

Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.

Example: ‘While she called me rascal fiddler.’;

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

one who is playfully mischievous

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

A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.

Example: ‘My nephew is a little scamp who likes to leave lighted firecrackers under the lawnchairs of his dozing elders.’; ‘While walking home from the bar, he was set upon by a bunch of scamps who stole his hat.’;

(dated) To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.

To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.

Example: ‘A workman is said to scamp his work when he does it in a superficial, dishonest manner.’; ‘Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute.’;

one who is playfully mischievous

perform hastily and carelessly