Associations to the word «Scampering»

Wiktionary

SCAMPER, noun. A quick, light run.
SCAMPER, verb. (intransitive) To run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner.

Dictionary definition

SCAMPER, noun. Rushing about hastily in an undignified way.
SCAMPER, verb. To move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne