scallywag

English - Turkish

Definition of scallywag in English Turkish dictionary

haylaz

başbelası

yaramaz

Haylaz kimse, ciğeri beş para etmez adam

baş belası, haylaz, yaramaz

Related Terms

scalawag

{i} kerata

scalawag

{i} yaramaz

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

scalawag

ciğeri beş para etmez adam

scalawag

dili haylaz kimse

scalawag

{i} ciğeri beş para etmez tip

English - English

Definition of scallywag in English English dictionary

A rascal

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

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

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

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

one who is playfully mischievous

Related Terms

scalawag

A rascal. Alternative spelling of scallywag

scalawag

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

scalawag

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

scalawag

A rascal

scalawag

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

scalawag

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

scalawag

one who is playfully mischievous

scalawag

A scamp; a scapegrace

scalawag

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

scalawag

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

scallywags

plural of scallywag

Hyphenation

scal·ly·wag

Etymology

() Of Irish origin, "scalawag" refers to a "rascal" and is probably from sgalog "a labourer".