rapparee

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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive

Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Denis Ryan—th' ould rapparee, he wint afther us harrd—in that last case.

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.

Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

An advocate for absolute monarchy and church power; also an Irish vagabond, robber, Or rapparee.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis