a scamel is
... a word found only in one place. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Caliban, the sole native inhabitant of the magic island on which the play takes place, at one point says:
sometimes I'll get thee
Young scamels from the rock
Nobody in the world knows what this word means, though many conjectures have been offered. As a result, it has come to mean 'a word which you can make mean anything you like'. Now, if more words were like that, how different the world would be...
Here are some words which we have taken as scamels: that we have made to mean anything we like.
