scapegrace /SKAYP-grayss/ noun. : an incorrigible rascal.

In this page you can discover 9 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scallywag, like: scalawag, imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, varlet, monkey, rogue and knave.

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1 : scamp, reprobate. 2 : a white Southerner acting in support of the reconstruction governments after the American Civil War often for private gain.

“Scalawag” or “scallywag” is a word that has gotten around. It’s a young troublemaker or scamp, and today it has more of a harmless association. For a while, a scalawag was a sickly animal. Then it was a person with a bad reputation.

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1. The model’s beauty is ineffable and has everyone tongue-tied.
2. When Jake saw his fiancée walking down the church aisle, he experienced an ineffable feeling.
3. Obviously, my husband’s request for a divorce has left me in an ineffable mood.

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

1. I’ve never heard such utter twaddle!
2. I don’t believe in all that twaddle about fate.
3. She dismissed the findings as utter twaddle/a load of old twaddle.
4. The novel is sentimental twaddle.

A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives it from Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle, with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd’s + wallop (“beer (slang)”) “Codd’s …

1 : exciting pity or sympathy. 2 : mournful sense 1, regretful. More from Merriam-Webster on rueful. Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for rueful.

British slang term for nonsense, untruths.