Scamper vs Dashed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scamper and dashed

is that scamper is to run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner while dashed is .

As a noun scamper

is a quick, light run.

As an adjective dashed is

of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

scamper

English

Noun

(en noun)

A quick, light run.

Verb

(en verb)

To run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner.

The dog scampered after the squirrel.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1

The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.

Synonyms

* scurry * See also

Anagrams

* English intransitive verbs

dashed

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

(British, informal) A euphemism for damned .

It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

Usage notes

* Dashed in the sense of "damned" is considered to be upper-class or somewhat old-fashioned.

Synonyms

* (line) broken * (damned) darned (especially US)