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Scampy vs Swampy - What's the difference?

scampy | swampy |

As adjectives the difference between scampy and swampy

is that scampy is scampish while swampy is describing land that is wet like a swamp.

scampy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • scampish
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=December 20, author=Toni Schlesinger, title=Heart Beat, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The woman had collected a lot of stray dogs and I was petting the dogs and all of a sudden I looked at one--he was kind of scampy with a know-it-all look on his face--and I saw he was holding my diaphragm in his mouth. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=September 30, author=Henry Sheehan, title=The White Woman's Burden, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands." }}

    swampy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Describing land that is wet like a swamp.

    • See also

    * marshy