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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca