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31scoundrel — noun the lying scoundrel Syn: rogue, rascal, miscreant, good for nothing, reprobate; cheat, swindler, scam artist, fraudster, trickster, charlatan; informal villain, bastard, beast, son of a bitch, SOB, rat, louse, swine …
32bastard — n 1. illegitimate child, bye blow, Brit. Sl. get, Archaic. whoreson, natural child, love child. 2.Slang. a. scoundrel, villain, rascal, cad, dog, blackguard. See scoundrel (defs.1, 2).b. failure, All Inf. loser, dud, washout. adj 3. illegitimate …
33scoundrel — n 1. villain, miscreant, reprobate, incorrigible; rogue, knave, scapegrace, wastrel, Archaic. coistrel, ne er do well, good for nothing, good for naught; wretch, churl, cur, cad, dog, dastard, blackguard, Archaic. bezonian; All Inf. rat, creep,… …
34viper — n 1. scoundrel, villain, rogue, knave, good for nothing; wretch, cur, churl, Sl. stinker, Obs. stinkard, Inf. heel, cad; blackguard, rascal, scamp, devil; wretch, worm, Sl. no goodnik, Sl. lowlife, Inf. bum, degenerate; rotter, Chiefly Brit.… …
35wretch — n 1. unfortunate, miserable or poor being or creature, poor devil, pilgarlic, sad case, Sl. sad sack, Chiefly Brit. Sl. poor bugger; victim, sufferer, prey, shorn lamb, martyr, scapegoat; outcast, misfit, pariah; ragamuffin, Sl. raggy,… …
36loggerhead — [16] Loggerhead originally meant much the same as blockhead – a stupid person with a block of wood for a head (in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1588), Berowne calls Costard a ‘whoreson loggerhead’). The first part of it probably represents… …
37ape — In modern American usage ‘you big ape’ would normally be applied playfully to a muscular, but perhaps clumsy, man. According to A Dictionary of American Slang, by Robert Chapman, it can also mean a black person. It has perhaps that meaning in… …
38ass — ‘This plaintiff here’, says Dogberry the constable, in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (5:i) ‘did call me ass; I beseech you, let it be rememb’red in his punishment.’ Dog berry is certainly not alone amongst Shakespearean characters in… …
39fatty — Used insultingly to an overweight person, or in modern times jokingly to a woman who is constantly worrying about her weight. ‘What’s the matter, Fatty?’ is addressed to a police sergeant by a seventeen year old offender in Ed McBain’s short… …
40rabbit — Used contemptuously in Shakespeare’s Henry the Fourth Part Two (2:ii), where Bardolph says to a page: ‘Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away.’ The reason for ‘rabbit’ in this context is not clear: the word was not in general seventeenth… …
