rotter

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Dat Chigmok, he ees no good, he what you call a rotter, but he not dare to do this ting heemself That is how I feel," answered Stane.

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  1. noun Chiefly British Slang A scoundrel.

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  • It could have been hard, Varakov decided, for a man like Karamatsov— a despoiler, what the British before World War II in their days of empire would have called a "rotter"— to live with flawless beauty such as Natalia possessed. —  The Doomsayer  The Survivalist #
  • Here is a video of our adorable rotter, the one who doesn't sleep at night. —  Katrina Yellow: The mad bad and crazee life of Me!
  • The second answer was: "He talked as he wrote, and I know of nothing more characteristic of his talking and his writing than that tragic poem in which, with his heart crying for the child he had adored and lost, he could compare himself to 'an old black rotter of a boat' past service, and could see, when criticised for it, nothing discordant in that slang rotter dropped into such verse!" —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
  • Dat Chigmok, he ees no good, he what you call a rotter, but he not dare to do this ting heemself That is how I feel," answered Stane. —  A Mating in the Wilds
  • "I'm an awful rotter--plain lazy, I guess Well, I don't know but we'd better let Bob go, all things considered," observed Mr. Crowninshield, who had been quietly thinking the matter over I say Bob goes, too," reiterated Dick. —  Walter and the Wireless
 

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