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scallywag
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of scalawag English)
WordNet
n. white Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest [syn: scalawag]
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, varlet]
one who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag]
Wikipedia
Scallywag magazine was published in London between 1991 and 1995. The subtitle of issues 1 - 6 was "Camden's only alternative community magazine". It sought to publish controversial journalism which other satirical and investigative publications (such as Private Eye) would not publish due to fear of litigation. It was founded and edited by Simon Regan. A previous version was published in Dorset, and the first issue of the 'Camden Scallywag' says that the Dorset version was then "on edition 37".
In 1993 it was sued under English libel law by the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major, over reporting rumours that he had had an affair with a Downing Street caterer, even though it had said the allegations were false. By also suing the magazine's distributors, he received a settlement from them, and they passed the costs onto the magazine. Scallywag's financial position never recovered.
Stories from Scallywag magazine were used by the controversial writer David Icke in his book 'The Biggest Secret'.
At least 30 issues were published. Nos 1 - 3 were undated, no. 4 is dated February 1992, nos 27 - 30 are dated 1995. No 12 is dated Jan 93, it was a magazine that contained the article, entitled "Take-Away Midnight Feasts At Number 10" that John Major sued over.
A number of issues are archived here -> http://scallywagarchive.info/index.php
Scallywag may refer to:
- Scalawag
- Scallywag (magazine)
Usage examples of "scallywag".
I happened to go through Spillers Cut, you know where the taggerine yard is, and I heard a yelp, and something about it reminded me of this scallywag here.
Anyhow every scallywag south of the Zambesi was agog about the business, and there were no end of expeditions which never found a single Transvaal sovereign.
Rather foolishly I reported this to the officer, and one of the scallywags I have already mentioned promptly came forward and said quite untruly that twenty-five pesetas had been stolen from his bunk.
Prince of Wales sauntered forth from the clutch of bosom-buddy scallywags Robin had elected to spend his sixteenth birthday with.
All the old stories-he was expelled from West Point, his own father had disowned him for his wild behavior, he was known to have made money in disreputable ways, as a professional gambler on Mississippi riverboats, in the brawling gold fields of California, and worst of all through consorting with scallywags and carpetbaggers.
But the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was stopped, and anyway, with the last muster book lost, it'd be hard for a seaman to claim his pay from those scallywag clerks at the Navy Board office.