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rapscallion

英 [ræp'skælɪən] 美
英英释义
近义词rascal
  • n. 流氓,恶棍

GRE

英英释意


1. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
2. one who is playfully mischievous

英文词源


rapscallion
rapscallion: see rascal
rapscallion (n.)
1690s, alteration of rascallion (1640s), a fanciful elaboration of rascal (q.v.). It had a parallel in now-extinct rampallion (1590s), from Middle English ramp (n.2) "ill-behaved woman."