rapparee
Example Sentences
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"They were called Rapparees," Mr. Malone says, "from being armed with a half-pike, called by the Irish a rapparee."
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
An advocate for absolute monarchy and church power; also an Irish vagabond, robber, Or rapparee.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Why, what an ungrateful young rapparee it is, wanting to leave the home of five years like that!”
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by L. Rahey
‘Yes, you rapparee; but didn’t you promise—or didn’t I promise for you, which is all one and the same thing—that you’d pay it all back with your prize-money—and where is it? answer that, Terence O’Brien.’
From Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat
