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noun

Rascal n.

One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer. (Obs.) "He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal." "Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them (horns) as huge as the rascal."

A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. "For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more."

adjective

Rascal adj. Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base. "The rascal many." "The rascal people." "While she called me rascal fiddler."

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Etymology of 'Rascal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rascal" Quotes from Famous Books

... glass was warming.— You rascal! limber your lazy feet! We must be fiddling and performing For supper and bed, or starve in the street.— Not a very gay life to lead, you think? But soon we shall go where lodgings are free, And the sleepers need neither victuals nor drink:— The sooner, ...

— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various

... The hypocritical rascal winked slyly to his comrade as he said this. Meanwhile Lindsay and one of the men examined the contents of the boat, and, finding ...

— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne

... Marquis, but smoothly and with an unchanged front, except as to the spots on his nose: "I would ride over any of you very willingly, and exterminate you from the earth. If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... contempt, probably borrowed from the kitchen; a cook, in base Latin, being termed "coquinarius." compare French "coquin," rascal. ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... attempt the rascal made with no more success; and then vanished from Sierra Leone; considering—as the Obeah-men in the West Indies are said to hold of the Catholic priests—that 'Buccra Padre's Obeah was too strong ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

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