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View synonyms for scallywag

scallywag

[ skal-ee-wag ]

noun

  1. a variant of scalawag.


scallywag

/ ˈskælɪˌwæɡ /

noun

  1. informal.
    a scamp; rascal
  2. (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

C19: (originally undersized animal) of uncertain origin

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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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