Transferred, in various senses, to persons. Applied opprobriously or contemptuously to a man: cf. dog, n.1 5a; a detested, mean, or despicable man…

A base, mean, degenerate person.

An ill-conditioned or low fellow; later, in milder use, and esp. of a boy or young man: A saucy or impertinent young fellow; an ‘unlicked cub’, a…

A base or despicable person. Obsolete.

A person who exhibits base, licentious, or indulgent behaviour; a person regarded as animal-like in lacking self-control or rational thought.

Usually in form dogbolt. As a term of contempt or abuse: (probably originally) a person who is at someone else's command, a menial, a dogsbody…

A ragged disreputable person; also attributive or adj., beggarly. Cf. shack-rag, n., shag-rag, adj. n.

A base or abject person. Cf. slave, n.1 3b.

A stinking or dirty fellow; one who is given to ‘dirty tricks’; a ‘skunk’.

A ragged, disreputable person; a low rascally fellow.

= shake-rag, n., shag-rag, adj. n.

A slobbering or dirty fellow; a worthless sloven.

A base or degraded creature.

A low, rascally fellow.

slang. A low fellow (= scab, n. 4). ? Obsolete.

= slubberdegullion, n. Also attributive.

A trifler; an insignificant or contemptible fellow (cf. whiffling, adj.1 3); also, a shifty or evasive person.

A despicable or degraded fellow fit only to hang a dog, or to be hanged like a dog.

figurative. A person of mean, grovelling, or contemptible character; a loathsome or repulsive person.

(A disrespectful name for) God, esp. when regarded anthropomorphically. Also (in extended use): a person no longer held in high esteem.

colloquial. Chiefly North American. A dishonest, mean, or contemptible person.

Used contemptuously: A low or mean fellow; a scamp, a rascal.

A vulgarly or obtrusively overdressed person; also a sponger, hanger-on, parasite; a roué, rake, swell-mobsman. slang. Obsolete.

a lock of hair made smooth by the application of soap; hence, one who wears such, a low fellow, a rough or rowdy.

A disreputable person.

Chiefly Navy slang. A sly or contemptible person; an informer, a traitor. Now rare (historical in later use).

A disreputable person; a scamp, blackguard. slang and dialect.

As a type of something valueless. A mean or contemptible person.

= whiffler, n.2 2.

Australian and New Zealand. figurative. An ill-bred or degenerate animal; an ill-favoured, despicable person.

transferred. Nautical. (See quots.)

(a) a bean-shaped sweet with a gelatinous centre and a hard sugar coating; (b) slang an unpleasant, weak, or dishonest person; spec. a pimp.

U.S. (originally Criminals' slang). A dishonourable, untrustworthy, or otherwise despicable person. Chiefly as predicate.

a despicable or untrustworthy person; also with implication of lasciviousness.

chiefly U.S. An unpleasant or despicable person; also as a general term of abuse. Cf. crut, n.3

= crud, n.1 2a (in quot. 1940 = excrement).

A derogatory designation for a person.

An unpleasant or despicable person. Cf. crud, n.1 2a.

A base, despicable person. Also as a term of abuse.

An ignorant, obnoxious, or otherwise detestable person (esp. a man). Often as a disparaging form of address. Cf. scumbag, n. 2.