Currently playing a video game and a NPC called me this. It’s a pre-boomer term as I’ve always known. So, I thought it’d be fun to see who gets close to the definition.
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Without googling it, wtf is a rap scallion?
EDIT: For clarification, I know it means onery and rambunctious youth, but what is it derived from. Like the origin of the term.
A rogue, a ne'er do well, a persona non grata
A bounder, a cad
A hoodlum
Roustabout rambler.
rap scallion
That's a hip-hop vegetable. You mean "rapscallion."
Dammit, beat me too it
A scallion, skilled in freestyle hip-hop
The notorious Sca.lli.on.
Lil' Skallion, Skallionaire gang
Well, I'm pretty sure it's just one word for starters.
I've always read 'rapscallion' as a sort of youthful miscreant: an almost gender-neutral mildly negative label applied to a person lacking the wisdom of age who is engaged with some slightly rebellious activity.
The word died about the time of ww2, when most of those erstwhile rapscallions became war veterans or casualties.
Those rapscallions veterans would go on to accuse the the next generation of rapscallions of being punks.
Edit: Just checked if YouTube had a supercut of WIlliam Shatner's TJ Hooker calling kids "punk"", but alas: nothing.
Fair. But my wueseuj was to mean, why is it a bad thing? What is a rap scallion? Sort of one how “asshole” is a derogatory, and it’s… well, an asshole. No one wants to be one. So why is a rapscallion bad?
Most societies historically had some form of negative pressure applied to post-adolescents who refuse to accept adult responsibilities.
Of course, you said not to search so I'm just spitballing here.
And, in doing a search, it looks like I was wrong!
;)
I got called this by an old guy back when i was a kid in the 90s. Im assuming it means cunt or something like that
Edit: Im in australia, everything means cunt at some point
A ne'er-do-well scalliwag of the utmost miscreant order.
My guess is that it descended from "rascal", or is closely related. I know a lot of French and some Spanish and Italian, and I don't think "rascal" appears in those languages, so it can't come from Latin/Greek. But, it doesn't sound Anglo Saxon or Germanic, so I reckon it might be Shakespearian, he introduced loads of new words like this.
Edit: I have just googled, I was mostly wrong. "Rascal" comes from Latin through old French, then "rapscallion" evolved in English in the 17th century to be able to add spoken emphasis. It's just easier to contemptuously spit "you rapscallion" than "you rascal".
There was a travelling circus that had a lion, and during its performances they noticed it did much better if they played certain kinds of music. This lion was into rap and ska, so they called it rap-ska-lion and rapscallion describes its personality.
One word. Rapscallion.
It's a general insult, like 'low life' or creep' or 'sleazoid.'
An untrustworthy knave.
Here's where it comes from.
Source. https://www.deviantart.com/...
He's the vegan in a trio with the Rhymenoceros and the Hiphopopotamus.
A step above a skallywag.
Usually applied to a rambunctious and disobedient child.
If you’re looking for guesses about the etymology, I’m guessing it shares an origin with “rascal”.
Ah, got me there.
I'm almost certain it's a fancification of the word rascal. Like some dude in 1750 said 'what's rascal short for?' and his quick witted friend said rapscallion and yada yada now it's a word.
That's a green onion with hella flow, put them on the record.
A rapscallion is a little stinker
I always thought it was Rab Scalliron who was a famous Glaswegian prankster from the 1700's
A knave.
It's an older generations punk onion.
Is it something like a bothersome/mischievous person?
Ah i see. If I'm gonna guess:
Rap -> sounds like an older version of the word wrap. So to wrap something or something that's intertwined.
Scallion -> sounds like it relates to a specific group of people or maybe even a certain type of animal. Maybe a snake like animal (thinking scales).
Putting that together, it's a snake or snake like animal that wraps around you or others and it's a bother to remove.
Am close at all or I'm playing tennis when the game is super Mario?
I thought it was fun. After looking it up myself I learned: ::: spoiler Spoiler I was definitely wrong, but got one aspect partially right. Rascallian came from rascal, which was originally a French word (rascaile) for the "people of the lowest class, the general mass; rabble or foot-soldiers of an army" source :::
It's a kind of onion some rappers like to spin in their music videos. The tradition has evolved from spinning leek, common in other music genres.
Rap Scallion is a cook in Monkey Island.
I'm sorry I clearly can't follow instructions and the word nerd in me took over I AM SO SORRY!!
I have the entire Wiktionary on my phone, offline, I use it constantly and had never even considered looking this word up. So, I mean, I didn't Google it, technically I didn't even use the internet or anything, but I definitely cheated (albeit accidentally)
Yeah, it's an app called Aard 2 (pretty sure I grabbed it from Fdroid) and it can import database dumps from wiki-style sites, it's made me a big hit at parties as you can imagine. Now you can be, too!
Dictionary blobs you can choose from: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
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A rake, a knave, a cur, a lout, a scoundrel.
As far as etymology, it's derived from "rascallion", the long form of "rascal", which itself is derived from the French term "rascaille", which refers to a mob.
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