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/rˈæskəl/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rascal" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the assault was a drummer-boy of some New York Regiment, a recklessly brave little rascal. He had somehow smuggled a small four-shooter in with him, and when they rushed out he fired ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... seen trees as men walking. His helot has unlocked the world behind appearance and made him free of the Spirits of Natural Fact who abide there. If he is not the debtor of his comrade—and he protests the debt—he should be. But the rascal laps it all up, as a cat porridge, without so much as a wag of the tail for Thank-you. Such are the exorbitant overlords in mortal men, who pass for reputable persons, with ...

— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett

... astonished at the rascal's audacity, but took care to keep my eyes fixed abstractedly upon the ceiling, and drank my wine in as unconscious a manner as possible. I felt that Flannigan was looking towards me with his wolfish eyes to see if I had noticed the allusion. He whispered something to his companion ...

— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... professed gambler like Captain Scarborough should suddenly become an illegitimate nobody; and, more interesting still, that a very wealthy and well-conditioned, if not actually respectable, squire should have proved himself to be a most brazen-faced rascal. All of these were matters which gave extreme delight to the world at large. At first there came little paragraphs without any name, and then, some hours afterward, the names became known to the quidnuncs, and in a short space of time were in possession of the ...

— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope

... the hands of a cook? Are not rabbits very innocent animals? My favorite dish—by means of these animals I could succeed in never becoming tired of making my country happy—and these rabbits he lets me do without! Sucking pigs and sucking pigs daily. Rascal, I am disgusted with ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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