rapparee
Example Sentences
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
How him an' his blood-cousin, Tim Moriarty, lay wan night for an' ould rapparee av a landlord, who'd evicted pore Tim out av house an' home.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.
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
I knew ut—I felt ut at th' toime—that shtinkin' rapparee av a hobo was lyin'—whin he said he did not renumber a harse bein' brought back.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.
