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say it: SKAM-pur
scamper is a noun and verb meaning "rushing about hastily in an undignified way". It carries 2 recorded senses.
to move about or proceed hurriedly
“so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scamper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.