Associations to the word «Scalawag»
Noun
- Freedman
- Southerner
- Reconstruction
- Radical
- Klan
- Republican
- Unison
- Bullock
- Unionist
- Coalition
- Redemption
- Ames
- Horseback
- Negroes
- Exclusion
- Toast
- Igor
- Ku
- Carpet
- Black
- Worse
- Patronage
- Suffrage
- Democrat
- Moses
- White
- Faction
- Alabama
- Traitor
- Yankee
- Mississippi
- Fbi
- Curtis
- Louisiana
- Southern
- Carolina
- Conservative
- Plantation
- Scandal
- Convention
- Regime
- Politics
- Delegate
- Arrival
- Kirk
- South
- Opponent
- Georgia
- Vote
- Amendment
- Governor
- Slave
- North
- Ex
- Classification
- American
- Majority
- War
- Party
- Editor
- Railroad
- Violence
- Union
- Journal
- Andrew
- Era
- Historian
Adjective
Adverb
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.
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