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scallywag
[ skal-ee-wag ]
scallywag
/ ˈskælɪˌwæɡ /
noun
- informal.a scamp; rascal
- (after the US Civil War) a White Southerner who supported the Republican Party and its policy of Black emancipation. Scallywags were viewed as traitors by their fellow Southerners
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scallywag1
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Example Sentences
It is better Desmond should become a priest than die a scallywag—and it will keep him out of the way of that Sylvia Custance.
In regard to Kostolo, the Greek was a low scallywag, but not culpable.
The fact remained that Paragot, the hairy disreputable scallywag, had relations with a high born and beautiful woman.
He was no scapegrace or scallywag such as you might find nowadays crowing over his sins in Chelsea.
For I thought it was right she should know that you werent just a scallywag private soldier like the rest of us.
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