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rap⋅scal⋅lion
[rap-skal-yuh
n] 
–noun
| a rascal; rogue; scamp. |
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| rap·scal·lion (rāp-skāl'yən) n. A rascal; a scamp. [Alteration of obsolete rascallion, from rascal.] |
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Rapscallion
Rap*scal"lion\, n. [See Rascallion.] A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.] --Howitt.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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rapscallion
1699, alteration of rascallion (1649), a fanciful elaboration of rascal (q.v.). It is the parallel term of now-extinct rampallion (1593), from M.E. ramp (n.) "ill-behaved woman" (c.1450), which is probably connected to the definition of romp in Johnson's Dictionary (1755) as "a rude, awkward, boisterous, untaught girl."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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