rapparee

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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.

From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony

Denis Ryan—th' ould rapparee, he wint afther us harrd—in that last case.

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Kendall, Ralph S.

‘Yes, you rapparee; but didn’t you promise—or didn’t I promise for you, which is all one and the same thing—that you’d pay it all back with your prize-money—and where is it? answer that, Terence O’Brien.’

From Peter Simple by Marryat, Frederick