Definition of "rapscallion"
rapscallion
noun
plural rapscallions
(archaic) A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
Quotations
“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.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]
She had a studio built for him on a loft of the carriage house behind the family mansion when he was only ten years old, and she hired a rapscallion German cabinetmaker, who had studied art in Berlin in his youth, to give Father drawing and painting lessons on weekends and after school.
1982, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Deadeye Dick
adjective
comparative more rapscallion, superlative most rapscallion
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