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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

... pale as death. Then turning suddenly crimson, she felt so suffocated by anger that she could not speak. Finally she gasped out: "You will please tell that scoundrel, that rascal, that carrion of a Prussian, that I shall never consent; you understand, ...

— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

... "You dirty, good-for-nothing little rascal, can't you be polite enough to say 'Miss Clara'? What do you want with her?" continued Sebastian roughly. "She owes ...

— Heidi • Johanna Spyri

... explained by a marginal note to be, "the rascal, that cut the Duke of York's picture." The same circumstance is mentioned in "Musa Praefica, or the London Poem, or a humble Oblation on the sacred Tomb of our late gracious Monarch King Charles II., of ever blessed and ...

— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

... feet, utterly beside himself, quite out of his mind, his face all aflame with the most fiendish rage, and doubling his fists and shaking them at his counterpart on the stage, he yelled at the top of his voice, "No, you won't, no, you won't, you rascal! you scoundrel, you,—Pasquale! Do you mean to cheat yourself out of your Marianna, you hound? Are you going to throw her in the arms of that scoundrel,—sweet Marianna, thy life, thy hope, thy all? Ah! ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... was out of sorts and had not had its feed before starting, or the going was heavy and it did not like heavy ground, or the country was too hilly or too flat for it. It was the same with his company, with his non-commissioned officers, with his soldier servant, a notoriously drunken rascal, and with ...

— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty

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