rapscallion

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  1. noun A rascal; a scamp.

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  • While the parley was in progress, old Doctor Cooper himself appeared at one of the upper windows and excitedly cautioned the crowd not to listen to that blatant young rapscallion Hamilton, as he was a rogue and a varlet and a vagrom. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
  • He was always a rapscallion of the first stripe, and when I was back there this past year he was always full of brag about how no girl could resist him. —  Alvin Journeyman
  • If that is a compliment, then a rapscallion is a hip-hop onion. —  Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
  • "I would not doubt a Carvel's word," says the captain, "(always excepting Grafton and his line, as usual), but you may duck me on the stool and I comprehend why Mr. Fox and his friends took up with such a young rebel rapscallion as you — and after the speech you made 'em." —  Richard Carvel
  • I don't think I have to tell you what kind of rapscallion this two-bit thief is. " —  Wagers of Sin
 

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  1. Alteration of obsolete rascallion, from rascal.

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  1. A modified form of rascallion.
 

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/ræpˈskælyən/
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