Word Meanings - RAPSCALLION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. Howitt.
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- RASCALITY
1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson. - SCOUNDRELISM
The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave. - RASCAL
racaille, F. racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler to scrape, LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L. radere, rasum. 1. One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, - BLACKLEG
1. A notorious gambler. 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. - VILLAINOUS
1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine - RASCALLY
Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift. - RAPSCALLION
A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. Howitt. - SCOUNDREL
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope. (more info) scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun. - VILLAINY
1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak. 2. Abusive, reproachful - RASCALLION
A low, mean wretch - BLACKGUARDISM
The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism. - VILLAIN
One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must - RASCALESS
A female rascal. - BLACKGUARDLY
In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly. - BLACKGUARD
1. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants - RASCALDOM
State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively. Emerson. - SCOUNDRELDOM
The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels. Carlyle. - OUTVILLAIN
To exceed in villainy. - SUPRASCALPULAR; SUPRASCALPULARY
Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula. - WRAPRASCAL
A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.