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rascallike

adj

Etymology

From rascal + -like.

  1. derived from *rasicō✻ — “to scrape”
  2. derived from rascaille — “outcast, rabble”
  3. inherited from rascaile — “people of the lowest class, rabble of an army”
  4. suffixed as rascallike — “rascal + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a rascal.

    • He continued chopping, and his grin was downright rascallike, purely unsuited to a God-fearing Presbyterian.

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