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rapscallion

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rap⋅scal⋅lion

  [rap-skal-yuhn]
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–noun
a rascal; rogue; scamp.
Origin:
1690–1700; earlier rascallion, based on rascal
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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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Word Origin & History

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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