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rapscalliona mischievous personAs soon as she was old enough to receive men I gave her a room of her own. Then the rapscallions of the town began to visit her.
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rapscallion1690s, alteration of rascallion (1640s), a fanciful elaboration of rascal (q.v.). It had a parallel in now-extinct rampallion (1590s), from Middle English ramp (n.2) "ill-behaved woman."
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rapscalliona mischievous person
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rapscallion(n) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel(n) one who is playfully mischievous
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rapscallion
A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
* '''1901''', and , ''The Inheritors'', ch. 3:
*: She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were tr [..]
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