rapparee

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This rapparee promised him mountains of wealth, and an English company was found to advance large sums of money—I fear on Sir Arthur's guarantee.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

"They were called Rapparees," Mr. Malone says, "from being armed with a half-pike, called by the Irish a rapparee."

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

"Well, indeed I ought, sir, to know them," replied Mogue, "and I believe I do; and talkin' of that, you have often heard of the great robber and rapparee, Shaun Bernha?"

From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William