0 present participle of scamper --
1 When small children and animals scamper, they run with small quick steps: --
She washes and dresses her three kittens for the party, but within moments the kittens have soiled and lost their clothes while scampering about the garden.
These cars contained a plastic bladder which could be filled with pressurized air that, when released, sent the car scampering down the track.
The monster roused his fierce rage by scampering round his position as a means of revving up his momentum and sharpening a deadly attacking pulse.
He is described as being able to smile in a way that would send hitherto sane men scampering into the trees.
Defendants had often avoided legal responsibilities by scampering from the state of occurrence and not being available for service of process.
The phrase hina mina means scattered, like a large collection of objects spilled (or scampering, as in small animals) in all different directions.
People were scampering and rushing to work.
There is no time to go to the police authorities, so they go scampering about to neighbours and collect a few pounds to clear the rent, and they clear it.
