rapparee

• The ungrateful rapparee--Oh no, but that's Irish, and he'd be French Yes, uncle," said the boy thoughtfully, for his uncle's fulminations fell blankly upon his ears as he stood trying to puzzle out some of the pencilled words upon the fly-leaf of the book Here's pardon_, uncle, and something else I can't make out, and changer_. —  The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
• Denis Ryan--th' ould rapparee, he wint afther us harrd--in that last case. —  The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
• For if I call Mr. Arthur Balfour a Tory will Mr. Max Muller refute my opinion by urging that 'a Tory meant originally an Irish rapparee,' or whatever the word did originally mean Mr. Max Muller decides that 'we never find a religion consisting exclusively of a belief in fetishes, or totems, or ancestral spirits.' —  Modern Mythology
• I paid the rapparee, and in I popped. —  Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
• I nipped over the border like a shot, and about ten miles the other side, in a nullah, my rapparee-in-charge showed me about seventy men variously armed, but standing up like a Queen's company. —  Stalky ; Co.

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms