Currently playing a video game and a NPC called me this. It’s a pre-boomer term as I’ve always known. So, I thought it’d be fun to see who gets close to the definition.

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Without googling it, wtf is a rap scallion?

EDIT: For clarification, I know it means onery and rambunctious youth, but what is it derived from. Like the origin of the term.

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It's a kind of onion some rappers like to spin in their music videos. The tradition has evolved from spinning leek, common in other music genres.

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    [–] 37 points 18 hours ago

    rap scallion

    That's a hip-hop vegetable. You mean "rapscallion."

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  • [–] 51 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

    A rake, a knave, a cur, a lout, a scoundrel.

    As far as etymology, it's derived from "rascallion", the long form of "rascal", which itself is derived from the French term "rascaille", which refers to a mob.

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  • [–] 23 points 20 hours ago* (3 children)

    A rogue, a ne'er do well, a persona non grata

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    A mischevious youth.

    "Damn hippies" except with a hint of "damn you kids".

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  • [–] 26 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    A scallion, skilled in freestyle hip-hop

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  • [–] 13 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

    Well, I'm pretty sure it's just one word for starters.

    I've always read 'rapscallion' as a sort of youthful miscreant: an almost gender-neutral mildly negative label applied to a person lacking the wisdom of age who is engaged with some slightly rebellious activity.

    The word died about the time of ww2, when most of those erstwhile rapscallions became war veterans or casualties.

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    Those rapscallions veterans would go on to accuse the the next generation of rapscallions of being punks.

    Edit: Just checked if YouTube had a supercut of WIlliam Shatner's TJ Hooker calling kids "punk"", but alas: nothing.

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    [–] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    It's a type of onion that was especially stinky and hard to cook with, then it turned into an insult for rambunctious youth

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    [–] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    it's a green onion, with flow.

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  • [–] 8 points 19 hours ago* (2 children)

    I got called this by an old guy back when i was a kid in the 90s. Im assuming it means cunt or something like that

    Edit: Im in australia, everything means cunt at some point

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    A rapscallion is a little stinker

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    A ne'er-do-well scalliwag of the utmost miscreant order.

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    [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    It's an older generations punk onion.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago

    Vegetable. Same family as pop-tatoes. Usually eaten with rock salt, though some people cooked them with ska-rrots and punkins.

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  • [–] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    There was a travelling circus that had a lion, and during its performances they noticed it did much better if they played certain kinds of music. This lion was into rap and ska, so they called it rap-ska-lion and rapscallion describes its personality.

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    [–] 5 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    One word. Rapscallion.

    It's a general insult, like 'low life' or creep' or 'sleazoid.'

    An untrustworthy knave.

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    [–] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    He's the vegan in a trio with the Rhymenoceros and the Hiphopopotamus.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago

    A person of low character.

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    A step above a skallywag.

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago

    I'm almost certain it's a fancification of the word rascal. Like some dude in 1750 said 'what's rascal short for?' and his quick witted friend said rapscallion and yada yada now it's a word.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    A dastardly sort of fellow

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Usually applied to a rambunctious and disobedient child.

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    A cheeky fucker

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