rascal
Meanings
Plural: rascals
Noun
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- one who is playfully mischievous
- A dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.
- Sometimes diminutive: a cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
- A member of a criminal gang.
Adj
- Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.
Origin / Etymology
Recorded since c.1330, as Middle English rascaile (“people of the lowest class, rabble of an army”), derived from 12th century Old French rascaille (“outcast, rabble”) (modern French racaille), perhaps from rasque (“mud, filth, scab, dregs”), from Vulgar Latin *rasicō (“to scrape”). The singular form is first attested in 1461; the present extended sense of "low, dishonest person" is from early 1586.
Synonyms
devil, imp, knave, mischief-maker, monkey, rapscallion, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, scoundrel, troublemaker, varlet, villain
Scrabble Score: 8
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