Rascal

Definition of Rascal

Ras´cal Pronunciation: răs´kal

n.	1.
	1.	One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer. He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. - Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. - Shak.
	2.	A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more. - Dryden.
a.	1.	Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base. While she called me rascal fiddler. - Shak.

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