Scapegrace

Definition: Scapegrace

Scapegrace

Noun

1. A reckless and unprincipled reprobate.

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Date "scapegrace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: Scapegrace

Bad Man

Scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag.

Rashness

Desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer.

Crosswords: Scapegrace

A Splendid Scapegrace (1913)

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Books

• Scapegrace (reference)

• The Scapegrace (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The ideal of a scapegrace of twenty who gets married, is to be like Monsieur Royer Collard

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Albanian

qerrata (mischievous, scallywag, scamp, son of a gun, varmint, wretch), kopuk (bad character, blackguard, cad, knave, miscreant, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scamp, varmint, villain). (various references)

Arabic 

‏النذل الحقير, ‏الوغد (blackguard, kite, knave, loon, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, villain). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хаймана (botcher, lad, sad dog, scamp, vagabond), негодник (dog, good for nothing, knave, no good, rotter, scaramouch, sorry fellow, villain, wretch). (various references)

Czech

dareba (little devil, pickle, rag). (various references)

French

voyou, vaurien (scoundrel), coquin (scalawag, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

German

Taugenichts (good for nothing, good-for-nothing). (various references)

Greek 

μόρτησ (rascal), παλιόπαιδο (brat, naughty boy, ragamuffin), παλιάνθρωποσ (blackguard, knave, miscreant, rascal, rotter, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, skunk), αχαΰρευτοσ (good for nothing). (various references)

Hungarian

semmirevaló (good for nothing, rotter, waster, wastrel). (various references)

Italian

scapestrato (dissolute, loose living), monello (brat, guttersnipe, rascal, romp, scamp, urchin), cattivo soggetto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

困り者 (good-for-nothing, nuisance, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"まりもの (good-for-nothing, nuisance, trouble). (various references)

Manx

mac meechoyrle. (various references)

Pig Latin

apegracescay.(various references)

Portuguese

tratante (kite, knave, knavish, loon, ne'er-do-well, picaroon, rascal, rogue, roguish, scamp, sinner, sirrah, spalpeen, vagabond, wheeler-dealer), patife (caitiff, cheat, crook, heavy, knave, mean-spirited, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, rascal, rascally, reprobate, rogue, rotter, scamp, scoundrel, scoundrelly, spalpeen, vagabond, villain, wretch), estouvada (ne'er-do-well), criança irriquieta (ne'er-do-well), criança incorrigível (ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Romanian

spânzurat (hanged, hanging, hung), secãturã (cad, good for nothing, ne'er do well, reprobate, rotter, trifles), puşlama (good for nothing), poznaş (arch, elfish, funny, prankish, rogue, roguish, tricksy, tricky, wag, waggish, wanton, wit), haimana (gutter-snipe, larrikin, loafer, ragamuffin, Ranger, renegade, street arab, tramp, truant, vagabond), derbedeu (reprobate, rogue, scoundrel, tramp, truant, urchin, vagabond), copil neascultãtor, berbant (rake), ştrengar (brat, rogue, romp, scamp, sprightly, urchin). (various references)

Russian 

повеса (lothario, play-boy, roue, sad dog, wild fellow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

propalica (coon, no good). (various references)

Spanish

pícaro (crafty, imp, jester, naughty, picaroon, rascal, rascally, rogue, roguish, saucy, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scamp, street smart, tinker), canalla (blackguard, cad, cur, heel, hound, mob, outsider, rabble, rat, riff raff, scab, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scoundrel, skunk, stinker, swine, you cad). (various references)

Swedish

spelevink (will-o'-the-wisp). (various references)

Turkish

yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), hayırsız, beş para etmez kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian

шалапут (featherbrain, varmint). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thằng xỏ lá, thằng xô liêm xỉ, người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, boob, fool, gaby, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony), người bộp chộp (hotbrain, hothead, light-head, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scapegrace": scapegraces. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acreages, gearcase.

-3 letters: acreage, carcase, escaper, presage, respace.

-4 letters: agrees, arecas, caesar, cagers, capers, crapes, crease, creeps, crepes, eagers, eagres, escape, escarp, gapers, gasper, graces, grapes, grease, pacers, pagers, parges, parsec, peaces, peages, ragees, recaps, recces, repegs, sarape, scarce, scrape, secpar, serape, spacer, sparge.

-5 letters: acres, agape, agars, agers, agree, apace, apers, apres, areae.

+1 letter: scapegraces.