rapscallion
英 [ræp'skælɪən]
美
- n. 流氓,恶棍
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."