rapparee
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No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
"They were called Rapparees," Mr. Malone says, "from being armed with a half-pike, called by the Irish a rapparee."
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe.
From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
Why, what an ungrateful young rapparee it is, wanting to leave the home of five years like that!”
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.
"A thundering bloody rapparee" was the name by which Carroll delighted to call him.
From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony
