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Definition of Scallywags
1. scallywag [n] - See also: scallywag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scallywags
Literary usage of Scallywags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Destitute Alien in Great Britain: A Series of Papers Dealing with the by Arnold Henry White (1892)
"... and the "scallywags." The motive does not justify, but it does explain, conduct
which ought to be vigilantly exposed and sternly punished by law. ..."
2. Letters from Nigeria, 1899-1900 by David Wynford Carnegie (1902)
"I take rather an interest in making the place clean, because the police look
such " scallywags" (having nothing but rags!) that no one ever fails to remark ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1878)
"You 're the best sister that ever was, so I 'II love all the scallywags you ask
me to." With a laugh and a kiss, Thorny shambled off to ascend his chariot, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"where, from a spectatorial point of view, they would have been a crowd of
scallywags, picturesque, perhaps, and capable of doing their work, but otherwise ..."
5. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1922)
"What scallywags we were! TRUCHARD. So we were. MONSIEUR MOUTON. I never knew such
a lot of rapscallions. TRUCHARD [encouragingly]. No. ..."
6. The United States: An Outline of Political History, 1492-1871 by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"... nicknamed Carpet-baggers, who, in alliance with some apostate Southern whites,
nicknamed scallywags, got the Southern governments into their hands. ..."
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