scalawag

English - Turkish

Definition of scalawag in English Turkish dictionary

{i} kerata

{i} yaramaz

Tom böyle bir yaramaz. - Tom is such a scalawag.

ciğeri beş para etmez adam

dili haylaz kimse

{i} ciğeri beş para etmez tip

Related Terms

scallywag

haylaz

scallywag

başbelası

scallywag

Haylaz kimse, ciğeri beş para etmez adam

scallywag

baş belası, haylaz, yaramaz

scallywag

yaramaz

English - English

Definition of scalawag in English English dictionary

A rascal. Alternative spelling of scallywag

Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

A rascal

Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedman and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies

{i} dishonest person, rascal, scoundrel (Slang)

one who is playfully mischievous

A scamp; a scapegrace

white Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest

a scallywag (Perhaps from scallag ). U.S. Southerner who supported Reconstruction. Opponents also applied the pejorative term to those who joined with carpetbaggers and freedmen to support Republican Party policies. The term, of unknown origin, was used from the 1840s to denote a worthless farm animal and later a worthless person. Scalawags included former Whigs and hill-country farmers with Unionist sympathies and constituted nearly 20% of the white electorate after the American Civil War. Many held government positions in the South and advocated moderate reforms

Related Terms

scallywag

A rascal

scalawags

plural of scalawag

scallywag

{i} dishonest person, rascal, scoundrel (Slang)

scallywag

white Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest

scallywag

If you call a boy or a man a scallywag, you mean that he behaves badly but you like him, so you find it difficult to be really angry with him. It's his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag. = rascal. scalawag a child who causes trouble but not in a serious way - used when you are not angry with them

scallywag

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

scallywag

one who is playfully mischievous

scallywags

plural of scallywag

Hyphenation

scal·a·wag

Etymology

[ 'ska-li-"wag ] (noun.) circa 1848. Of Irish origin, "scalawag" refers to a "rascal" and is probably from sgalog a labourer.