Rascal

Noun

 * 1) Someone who is naughty; either playfully mischievous or a troublemaker, a dishonest person, a scoundrel.
 * If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.

Synonyms

 * devil, imp, mischief-maker, scamp, scoundrel
 * See also Thesaurus:villain
 * See also Thesaurus:troublemaker

Adjective

 * 1)  low(ly), part of or belonging to the common rabble

Adjectives for Rascal
merry; glaring; bald-pated; meddlesome; lying; barren; mean; consummate; muddy-mettled; mercenary; stretch-mouthed; designing; tawny; lovable; scheming; vile; unmitigated; dishonest; cony-catching; villainous ; worthless.

Thesaurus
bad boy, bastard, blackguard, blighter, booger, bounder, buffoon, bugger, cad, cutup, dastard, devil, elf, enfant terrible, funmaker, good-for-nothing, heel, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, knave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lowlife, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, pixie, practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rapscallion, rogue, rotter, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, villain, wag, wastrel, wretch

Etymology
Recorded since c.1330, as rascaile:, derived from 12th century  rascaille: (modern French racaille:), perhaps from rasque: from  *undefined:. The singular form is first attested in 1461; the present extended sense of "low, dishonest person" is from early 1586.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"r\{s.k@l/}}

Noun

 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: riiviö, ilkiö, raskali,
 * French:, ,
 * German:


 * Japanese:
 * Polish: łajdak, łotr , szubrawiec
 * Romanian:, ticălos
 * Russian: негодник, плут,  шельмец
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Portuguese: patife

Adjective

 * Dutch: gemeen, ordinair, vulgair
 * French:


 * Polish: hołota (plural only)

Derived terms

 * rascality
 * rascally
 * rascalry

Anagrams

 * lascar
 * sacral
 * scalar