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noun
dialect British, IrishA worthless, dirty, or disreputable person; a vagrant.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Henry Fielding (1707–1754), author and magistrate. Apparently an alteration of rapscallion after rampallion. Perhaps compare Scots ram-, intensifying prefix.
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