rapscallion
pronunciation
How to pronounce rapscallion in British English:
UK [ræp'skæljən]
How to pronounce rapscallion in American English:
US [ræpˈskæljən]
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- Noun:
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- one who is playfully mischievous
Word Origin
- rapscallion
- rapscallion: see rascal
- rapscallion (n.)
- 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."
Example
- 1. Once described han solo as " the great rapscallion of the universe . "
- 2. And give that little rapscallion a kiss for me , okay ?
- 3. I want to make a cerebral the rapscallion lives on a fine girl , physically tenderness , his mental deformation .