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Rascal vs Spalpeen - What's the difference?

rascal | spalpeen |

As nouns the difference between rascal and spalpeen

is that rascal is a dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster while spalpeen is (irish) a poor migratory farm worker in ireland, often viewed as a rascal or mischievous and cunning person.

As an adjective rascal

is (archaic) low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.

rascal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
  • A playfully mischievous person or creature; a troublemaker.
    • That little rascal bit me!
    If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.
  • A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.

    • Synonyms

    * (someone who is naughty) devil, imp, mischief-maker, scamp, scoundrel * See also * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

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    External links

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    spalpeen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Irish) A poor migratory farm worker in Ireland, often viewed as a rascal or mischievous and cunning person.
  • (Irish) A good-for-nothing person, often used so-named during a good humored ridicule.

    • Quotations

    * 1979 , , The Year of the French (New York: The New York Review of Books): *: "And they stood you before the magistrates like a spalpeen or a tinker." *: "Sure the French wouldn't bring with them barrels of coppers for the spalpeens of Connaught. It is murder and bloodshed they would bring." * 2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea (Vintage 2003), page 25: *: The men were mainly evicted farmers from Connaught and West Cork, beggared spalpeens from Carlow and Waterford; a cooper, some farriers, a horse-knacker from Kerry; a couple of Galway fishermen who had managed to sell their nets.

    See also

    * guttersnipe

    References

    * merriam-webster.com. * [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spalpeen]. * encarta MSN. * Spalpeen. The New Oxford American Dictionary. Second ed. English words suffixed with -een