Definition of Rascel
Ras"cal (răs"kal), n. [OE.
rascaille rabble, probably from an OF. racaille, F.
racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler
to scrape, (assumed) LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L.
radere, rasum. See Rase,
v.]
1. 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. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi.
19).
Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them
[horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak.
2. 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.
Dryden.
Ras"cal, a. Of or pertaining to the
common herd or common people; low; mean; base. "The
rascal many." Spenser. "The rascal people."
Shak.
While she called me rascal fiddler.
Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
RASCAL. A rogue or villain: a term borrowed from the
chase; a rascal originally meaning a lean shabby deer, at
the time of changing his horns, penis, &c. whence, in the
vulgar acceptation, rascal is conceived to signify a man
without genitals: the regular vulgar answer to this reproach,
if uttered by a woman, is the offer of an ocular demonstration
of the virility of the party so defamed. Some derive
it from RASCAGLIONE, an Italian word signifying a man.
without testicles, or an eunuch.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- Someone who is naughty; a troublemaker
If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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