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In United States history, scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) was a pejorative slur referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War. As with the term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates.
Scallywag may refer to: Scallywag (magazine) , an alternative community magazine of the 1990s Scallywags (Second World War) , a nickname for the British GHQ Auxiliary Units, who were to engage in guerilla warfare in the event of a Nazi invasion
Scalawag is a nickname for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction after the American Civil War.. Scalawag may also refer to: . Scalawag, a 1973 film directed by Kirk Douglas
Scallywag disappeared from print and moved to a site on the World Wide Web instead. Lewis followed and won damages from Scallywag ' s internet service provider, closing the site down. Regan responded by accusing Lewis of lying, and decided to attempt to sabotage Lewis' campaign in New Forest East where he was the Conservative candidate for the ...
1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger. In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, or social gain.
Today, being a larrikin has positive connotations and we think of it as the key to unlocking the Australian identity: a bloke who refuses to stand on ceremony and is a bit of a scallywag. When it first emerged around 1870, however, 'larrikin' was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and ...
A hooligan youth (Scouse), short for scallywag. [277] scarper Run away. Sometimes claimed to be rhyming slang: Scapa Flow (go). [278] [279] screw to have sex, or a prison guard scrubber In Britain, a promiscuous woman; in Ireland, a common or working class woman. [280] Scouser Someone from Liverpool. [281] scrote Term of abuse, from scrotum ...
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