Associations to the word «Rascal»

Wiktionary

RASCAL, noun. A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
RASCAL, noun. A playfully mischievous person or creature; a troublemaker.
RASCAL, noun. A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
RASCAL, adjective. (archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.
RASCAL, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

RASCAL, noun. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
RASCAL, noun. One who is playfully mischievous.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats