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scalawag |
(n): a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
(n): a person who does harm to others
(n): a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
(n): a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
(n): one who is playfully mischievous
(n): a young person of either sex
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See also scallywag.
See also scallywag.
I got this word from my mother, whose family goes back to the old West and the post-Civil War south. She used it as a generally disparaging term, and then only rarely.