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The word scalawag has an uncertain origin. Its earliest attestation is from 1848 to mean a disreputable fellow. [5] It has been speculated that "perhaps the original use of the word" referred to low-grade farm animals, but this meaning of the word was not attested until 1854. [6]
This slang for policemen, especially hawaladars, ("Havāladāra", meaning constable in Marathi) came to be from the 1975 Dada Kondke film Pandu Hawaldar. Panduri Serbo-Croatian, slang for a group of police officers. The meaning derived from the Latin word banderium, in which the word banderia also came from. They were military units created by ...
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; Scalawags, a podcast about the Scala programming language; Scalawag, an American nonprofit magazine focused on Southern politics and culture
A century ago (or more), we used more colorful terms to abuse one another. Here are some we need to bring back post haste.
Vance called the Republican Party "begotten by a scalawag out of a mulatto and born in an outhouse". Through Vance, the Democrats saw their biggest opening to begin implementing their agenda in the eastern part of the state.
Franklin J. Moses was a scalawag with great political influence in South Carolina. Scalawags was a derogatory term applied to white southerners who were involved in, and contributed to, Reconstruction laws. Many white southern politicians became Republican scalawags due to the high influx of African-American voters after the Civil War.
Scallywag may refer to: . Scallywag, 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
The sourced definition of scalawag in current version is an accurate description. White Southerners were taunted for pledging that they had not furthered the aims of the Confederacy, not for party membership, as was mistakenly added. I do not see the other edits as friendly. If you wish to discuss them one by one, please do so here.