English
scampsman
From scamp + -s- + man.
A compound of scamp + -s- + man
Latin cappa ‘cape, cloak’
Vulgar Latin *excappare ‘to escape’
Old French escamper ‘to run away, to make one's escape’
Middle Dutch schampen ‘slip away’
English scamp
Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’
Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’
Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’
Middle English man
English man
Today it means
noun highwayman
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “scampsman”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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