Crossword clues for rascal
rascal
- Scoundrel in opera scaled walls
- Rogue gunmen's state
- Troublemaker, a scallywag at heart
- Tinker, a scallywag, covers it
- Little devil
- Untrustworthy one
- Mischief maker
- Little mischief-maker
- Little bugger
- Roguish sort
- Prankish person
- Picaresque hero
- Impish sort
- Farina was a little one
- Spanky, e.g
- Our Gang member
- Mischievous little imp
- Cheeky type
- Bad egg
- Wee imp
- Runner around the rugged rock
- Rugged-rock runner
- Roguish troublemaker
- Relative of a knave
- Puck for one
- Mischievous fellow
- Member of Hal Roach's gang
- He ran "around the rugged rock."
- Dennis in comics, e.g
- Buckwheat, for one
- Big name in mobility scooters
- Another word for a scalawag
- Alfalfa, e.g
- Alfalfa once
- Alfalfa for one
- "Why Wait" Flatts
- "Little" one of old TV
- ___ Flatts (country group with the 2014 album "Rewind")
- ___ Flatts
- Mischief-maker
- Brat
- Classic Sterling North book
- Alfalfa, for one
- Buckwheat was a little one
- Mischievous one
- Scamp
- Impish one
- Prank player
- Heel
- Wily sort
- Spanky or Alfalfa, e.g
- Alfalfa or Buckwheat
- Little troublemaker
- No-goodnik
- Mischievous sort
- Scalawag
- One who is playfully mischievous
- A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- "Where is the ___ cook?": Shak.
- Rakehelly fellow
- Scaramouch
- Ganef
- Rapscallion
- "Our Gang" member
- "Little" person
- Naughty one
- Picaresque character
- Knave
- Mischievous person
- Spanky, for one
- Spanky of "Our Gang," e.g.
- Rogue
- Sterling North book: 1963
- Scapegrace
- Caught by cameras, callous rogue
- Camera's calibrated to catch villain
- Knave or jack changing hands
- Scoundrel runs half of La Scala? Not entirely
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rascal \Ras"cal\, a.
Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low;
mean; base. ``The rascal many.''
--Spencer. ``The rascal
people.''
--Shak.
While she called me rascal fiddler.
--Shak.
Rascal \Ras"cal\ (r[a^]s"kal), n. [OE. rascaille rabble, probably from an OF. racaille, F. racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler to scrape, (assumed) LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L. radere, rasum. See Rase, v.]
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One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer. [Obs.]
He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal.
--Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19).Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal.
--Shak. -
A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., rascaile "people of the lowest class, rabble of an army," also singular, "low, tricky, dishonest person," from Old French rascaille "rabble, mob" (12c., Modern French racaille, "the rascality or base and rascall sort, the scumme, dregs, offals, outcasts, of any company" [Cotgrave, French-English Dictionary, 1611]), perhaps a diminutive from Old French rascler, from Vulgar Latin *rasicare "to scrape" (see rash (n.)). Used also in Middle English of animals not hunted as game.
Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble. n. 1 A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. 2 A playfully mischievous person or creature; a troublemaker. 3 A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Rascal or rascals may refer to:
Rascal is a 1969 comedy-drama film adaptation made by Walt Disney Productions based on a book Rascal by Sterling North about a young man and his pet raccoon set in Wisconsin.
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, often referred to as Rascal, is a 1963 children's book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin.
Rascal, known as in Japan, is a platform game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Psygnosis ( Takara in Japan) and was released for the PlayStation in Europe on March 1998, in North America on March 31, 1998 and in Japan on March 18, 1999. The main character and several enemies were designed by the Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
Rascal is a single-board computer. It is designed by Brandon Stafford and sold by Rascal Micro LLC in Somerville, Massachusetts.
The Rascal Light Self-Propelled Howitzer is a lightweight mobile artillery system developed by Soltam Ltd, Israel.
The Rascal represents an entirely new design of SP gun. The objective of designing the Rascal was to make a gun light enough to not be restricted to the capacity of rural bridges, and so it could be air-lifted.
The vehicle is not based on any existing tank. The hull has a raised drivers compartment at the left front, the engine being behind the driver, and a central compartment for the commander and two gunners.
The 155mm (6.1 in) howitzer is installed on a platform at the rear of the vehicle and is power-operated. The gun may be either 39 or 52 calibers in length.
The Rascal Light carries 40 rounds of ammunition on board. These shells are stored in racks alongside the gun and cartridges in an Armour-protected compartment in the hull.
Category:Tracked self-propelled howitzers Category:Artillery of Israel Category:155 mm artillery
Usage examples of "rascal".
Possibly with the idea of interesting us in his favour, he began by saying that you were the greatest rascal in the world.
As he was going in, the rascal looked up and saw me, and began to laugh.
I am the greatest owl, monkey, baboon, rascal, oaf, ignoramus, blockhead, buffoon, or what you will.
The cousin laughed openly at his vain boasting, and to avenge himself the rascal told her that he was better than she.
When we were breakfasting he shewed me a letter written by Possano, in which the rascal said that he was ready to abandon proceedings provided that M.
The rascal Bulbul would have had her by guilebut failed, and now would send me to bargain for some obscure reason, which, perhaps, your greater wits can understand.
The rascal Bulbul tempted her with gold, no doubt about itas greedy as he is for commissions and bribes!
The three rascals came to see me one by one, and each tried to get me to give him money unknown to the other two, and each promised that if I would do that, he would get me out of the difficulty.
This might have led to some affectionate passages, but her father came in saying that the rascal was in prison, and that everyone said I was right.
She had almost made up her mind to submit to the operation, but as the rascal had mentioned my name, she wanted me to be present at a dispute between Tadini and the other oculist who came in with the dessert.
The rascal had done well and had sent to Mantua for his mistress, who came with her mother and a very pretty girl of twelve or thirteen.
Syn smiled and promised Cicely that although he could not stop preaching against this rascal, he would at least modify his righteous rage, adding in a more serious tone that perhaps in the near future it might not be necessary to preach upon that vein at all, since already it was evident that the Scarecrow was showing signs of repentance, and that he, as shepherd of the flock, hoped that he might be able to lead one more stray lamb into the fold.
That plume was the signature of Le Corbeau, the bold French rascal who called himself the Crow and claimed the right to peck at those who traveled the night roads north from London.
Le Corbeau, the bold French rascal who called himself the Crow and claimed the right to peck at those who traveled the night roads north from London.
I had the landlord upstairs and did as the rascal had asked me, but mine host told him that he could dispose of it after he had paid for it, and with that he turned his back on him and left the room.