Associations to the word «Scalawag»

Wiktionary

SCALAWAG, noun. (pejorative) (archaic) A scrawny cow.
SCALAWAG, noun. (pejorative) (archaic) A rascal.
SCALAWAG, noun. (pejorative) (US) (archaic or historical) Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.

Dictionary definition

SCALAWAG, noun. A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest).
SCALAWAG, noun. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
SCALAWAG, noun. One who is playfully mischievous.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin