rapscallion
noun
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Pronunciation: /ɹæpˈskæljən/
adj
Etymology: From an alteration of rascallion, a fanciful elaboration of rascal (“someone who is naughty”).
- Disreputable, roguish.
“[H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.”
“"I baint a-going to give my master's property to a lot of rapscallion thieves and robbers like you."”
noun
Etymology: From an alteration of rascallion, a fanciful elaboration of rascal (“someone who is naughty”).
- A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
““If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.”
“She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations.”