Definition of Scallywags

1. Noun. (plural of scallywag) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scallywags

1. scallywag [n] - See also: scallywag

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scallywags

scallop
scallop shell
scallop theorem
scallop theorems
scalloped
scalloper
scallopers
scallopine
scalloping
scallopini
scallopinis
scallops
scalls
scally
scallywag
scallywags (current term)
scalogram
scalograms
scaloppine
scaloppines
scaloppini
scalp
scalp contusion
scalp haematoma
scalp hair
scalp infection
scalp laceration
scalp lock
scalp muscle
scalpal

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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