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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rapscallion

Rapscallion \Rap*scal"lion\ (r[a^]p*sk[a^]l"y[u^]n), n. [See Rascallion.] A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.]
--Howitt.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rapscallion

1690s, alteration of rascallion (1640s), a fanciful elaboration of rascal (q.v.). It had a parallel in now-extinct rampallion (1590s), from Middle English ramp (n.2) "ill-behaved woman."

Wiktionary
rapscallion

n. 1 A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel. 2 (context attributive English) roguish, disreputable.

WordNet
rapscallion
  1. n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, varlet]

  2. one who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, scalawag, scallywag]

Wikipedia
Rapscallion

Rapscallion may refer to:

  • Rapscallion, space freighter in The Space Gypsy Adventures
  • The Rapscallions, antagonist army in the book The Long Patrol
  • The Rapscallions, a collegiate a cappella group from the 1980s
  • Rapp Scallion, a character in the game Monkey Island
  • "The Last Superpower AKA Rapscallion", a song by Primus, from their 2003 EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
  • RapScallions, an American rock band

Usage examples of "rapscallion".

Francis to think how greatly Pomfret must dislike to have all this rapscallion world at his very door.

And ye better be friend for ye pulled me away from swabbing the kitchen decks and now that rapscallion Hambone is skidding across the floor like a bloody ice dancer!

I might have known, I suppose it was you who lent her my horse, which your rapscallion of a brother stole from me when he absconded from the army.

She bade her father invite his rapscallion crew to her birthnight supper, and says 'tis that they may see her in breeches for the last time, for she will wear them no more, but begin to live a sober, godly, and virtuous life and keep a Chaplain of her own.

I refer, of course, to the reiving of our funds by that insufferable rogue, that leprous villain, that feculent dastard, that heinous rapscallion, that irremissible scapegrace, that—"

Panting and breathing heavily after their long run, Vendace, Borumm, and forty-odd Rapscallion fugitives lay flat among the trees on the hilltop, watching the shrews below.

Amina's assiduity seeps into me, and more ominous things‑clattering footsteps, my mother's need to plead for money until the napkin in my father's lap began to quiver and make a little tent‑and the cremated ashes of Arjuna Indiabikes, and a peepshow into which Lifafa Das tried to put everything in the world, and rapscallions perpetrating outrages.

I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.

I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead-beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.