scallywag:
(also ‘scallawag’ or ‘scalawag’; plural: ‘scallywags‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
two scallywags ripping a toy (unruly girls)
a dishonest person;
a rascal; a scamp (next entry);
a pirate;
(in the USA politics) a white Southerner who supported the reconstruction policies after the American Civil War, usually for his own benefit or personal gains,
a bald-headed scallywag (a woman without hair on the back of head)
Dan is a typical scallywag — dishonest in his dealing and dirty in appearance.
There are scalawags in every society and at every level of a society: there are educated scallawags; there are uneducated scallawags and there are religious scallawags who make others’ lives miserable.
After the Civil War in the USA, people compared people carpetbaggers with scalawags because both carpet baggers and scalawags tried their luck in amassing money on the pretext of developing the South!
