Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rascal; a scamp.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rascally, disorderly, or despicable person; a wretch or vagabond; a rascallion.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one who is playfully mischievous
- n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Etymologies
- From an alteration of rascallion, a fanciful elaboration of rascal (someone who is naughty). (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of obsolete rascallion, from rascal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If that is a compliment, then a rapscallion is a hip-hop onion.”
“Shadow - it was funny how many words some of my housemates had never heard of, such as rapscallion, smite and score as in four-score and ten - which I idiotically missed off the list!”
“It is precisely such nomadic notions as these that we have to thank for all kind of rapscallion pranks, for all uproars and broken windows.”
“a country/bluegrass journey evoking the rambling, tragically short life of a "rapscallion”
“I don't think I have to tell you what kind of rapscallion this two-bit thief is. ”
“Some online rapscallion hacked into my friend's email account and sent everyone in his address book the following message:”
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“The role is a change for Mr. Butz, who's become a pro at con men—among them the gleeful rapscallion Freddy in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"; an artist who fakes his own death in order to push up prices for his work in "Is He Dead?”
“It was a bloody affair, but when all was said and done, the rapscallion lay dead at myfeet.”
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“And probably Gabe, too, if the rapscallion had ever taken the time to think about it.”
“Supervisor and mayoral candidate, John Avalos knows first-hand what it's like to have some rapscallion abscond with his Schwinn.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rapscallion’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 172 more...
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 161 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 85 more...
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Rogue
Terms describing roguish persons.
hellcat, she-devil, depraved, blackguard, rapscallion, knave, rascal, blasphemer, heretic, sinner, damnable, ne'er-do-well and 8 more...
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The insulting ones
ingrate, sycophant, inane, wanton, pompous, vitriolic, ghastly, cesspool, abhor, highfalutin, obsequious, insidious and 25 more...
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Random Words! Add Your Own! :D
Randomness time! Add your own words. ❤
Love, bucket, brigade, actuary, canal, canasta, why is the door open, coconut, stochastic, haphazard, accidental, chance and 38 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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TEN DOLLAR WORDS
brouhaha, foofaraw, ruckus, slumgullion, snollygoster, slangwhanger, slugabed, hodgepodge, rapscallion, muckamuck, hornswoggle, sockdolager and 5 more...
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Rap-ture
rap, wrap, rapture, raptor, trap, grapple, krispy krap donuts, crappie, Irapuato, stenograph, graph paper, xerography and 11 more...
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Ruzuzu's totally rad, righteous, and ...
R words? Really? Right on!
retail, rabe, rutabega, Rashomon, radioisotope, Rasputin, rusty, rosacea, Rumi, riskier, rat, rifle and 53 more...
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Three is Compoundy.
Words that are made up of three words, be it intended for the meaning, or coincidentally (as in "attendance").
nonetheless, together, insofar, nevertheless, attendance, notwithstanding, hitherto, heretofore, whosoever, inasmuch, benjamin, psychotherapist and 40 more...
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Living outside the status quo
cardsharp, grifter, heist, heroine, mercenary, rapscallion, rogue, truant, renegade, outlaw, rebel, sedition and 4 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rapscallion.
sionnach Tee-hee. Dec 5, 2008
garyth123 a type of onion which has been influenced by hip-hop and African-American culture generally Dec 4, 2008
uselessness Rapp Scallion was a character in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. He ran the Steamin' Weenie Hut on Scabb Island before he tragically cremated himself in a kitchen accident. He carried one quarter of the map to the fabled treasure of Big Whoop, even to his grave.
Not sure about Huck Finn, I'm not that cultured. ;-) Feb 23, 2007
lilacs524 If I remember correctly, rapscallion was in Huck Finn? Feb 23, 2007