I just read this word somewhere else, and it occurred to me that it would make a great GW suggestion...
The sound of it is so ... intense!
-Tim
Scoundrel
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. . . or rapscallion, a word my father used to use sometimes to refer to us.
From Etymology Online:
Scoundrel (1589)
Scalawag (1848)
Rapscallioin (1699)
From Etymology Online:
Scoundrel (1589)
Scalawag (1848)
Rapscallioin (1699)
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
Yes! I agree!
Scalawag is the underachieving baby brother of the Scoundrel family!
-Tim
I hadn't remembered the "anti-Confederate Southerner" connotations! And I think I always spelled it (in my mind) 'scallywag'...scalawag
"disreputable fellow," 1848, Amer.Eng., originally in trade union jargon, of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of Scottish scallag "farm servant, rustic" (by influence of wag "habitual joker"). An early recorded sense was "undersized or worthless animal" (1854), which suggests an alteration of Scalloway, one of the Shetland Islands, in allusion to little Shetland ponies. In U.S. history, used from 1862 of anti-Confederate native white Southerners.
Scalawag is the underachieving baby brother of the Scoundrel family!
-Tim
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