Word Meanings - RASCAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, a lean, ill- conditioned beast, esp. a deer. He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif . Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal. Shak. 2. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RASCAL)

• Blackguard
• Scoundrel
• rascal
• rapscallion
• blackleg
• villain
• Caitiff
• Rascal
• miscreant
• rogue
• churl
• ruffian
• Curmudgeon
• Miscreant
• wretch
• Knave
• Hogue
• cheat
• scoundrel
• Rogue
• Vagabond
• scamp
• swindler
• sharper

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RASCAL)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to RASCAL)

• RUFFIAN
  brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• 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.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• SCOUNDRELISM
  The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• RASCAL
  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.
• SCAMPAVIA
  A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
• 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
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• 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.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• GUIDE
  A grooved director for a probe or knife. A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. (more info) 1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• DISCAMP
  To drive from a camp. Holland.
• SCAMPER
  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp,
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• CHURL
  husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow
• BROGUES
  Breeches. Shenstone.