rapparee
Example Sentences
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
How him an' his blood-cousin, Tim Moriarty, lay wan night for an' ould rapparee av a landlord, who'd evicted pore Tim out av house an' home.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
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
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
