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scalawag

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scalawag/ˈskaləwaɡ/

▶noun N. Amer. variant spelling of scallywag.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scallywag /ˈskaliwaɡ/ (US also scalawag)

▶noun informal

1 a mischievous person; a rascal.

2 US a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during the post-Civil War reconstruction period.

– origin C19: of unknown origin.

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