rapparee
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I knew ut—I felt ut at th' toime—that shtinkin' rapparee av a hobo was lyin'—whin he said he did not renumber a harse bein' brought back.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
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 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
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