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1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Scalawag, a favorite epithet in western New York for a mean fellow; a scape-grace.

1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. iv. 112 You good-for-nothin' young scallowag.

1885 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Sept. (1965) I. 138 Any socialist of the plentiful ‘scallawag’ type.

1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Scalliwags, an opprobrious term, equal to scamp or villain, applied to men who will not work.

1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 178 There are so many scallawags from the East come here, that we are obliged to be a little particular.

1925 E. von Arnim Love i. xviii. 181 You know how strongly I feel about motor-cycles, and the type of scallywag youth who uses them.

1926 Glasgow Herald 10 Sept. 11 Go back to your scallywag union.

1957 Listener 17 Oct. 608/2 Voyez, that rather scallywag wanderer who was dismissed by Wedgwood.

1862 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury 9 Aug. 1/3 This invaluable class is composed..of ten parts of unadulterated Andy Johnson Union men, ten of good lord and good devil-ites, five of spuss and seventy-five of scallowags.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept. The councilmen too often belong to the comprehensive genus ‘scallywag’. They have intrigued and speechified, and stumped their ward.

1867 Nation (N.Y.) 12 Dec. 470/1 The Macon News has to print in full the names of thirteen persons..described (as having ‘voted the Scalawag ticket’).

1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand (1883) 111/25.

1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 May 12 Our correspondent tells us that the new system [i.e. of Mental Healing] has not yet fallen into the hands of the ‘Scalawags’.

1886 Forum Apr. 128 Then came the absurd process called Reconstruction, with its swarm of leeches, carpet-baggers and Scalawags.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xliv. 164 A group of such ‘scallawag’ members..increase their legislative income by levying this form of taxation.

1854 N.Y. Tribune (Cattle Rep.) 24 Oct. (Cent. Dict.) The number of miserable ‘scallawags’ is so great that..they tend to drag down all above themselves to their own level.

1868 Daily News 18 Sept. Wade Hampton explained the origin of the term..by saying that ‘scalawag’ was the name applied by drovers to lean and ill-favoured kine.

1897 Daily News 9 Dec. 7/1 Robbing orchards and general scallywaggery is not within them [sc. disqualifications for military service].

1911 H. S. Harrison Queed iv. 45 The morning Post was an old paper... It had crucified carpet-baggism and scalawaggery upon a cross of burning adjective.

1962 Punch 9 May 735/1 Wilkes is worth writing about..for all his scallywaggery.

1897 Daily News 9 Dec. 7/1 The stages of accumulating merit for the fighting man, as Lord Charles gives them, appear to be first robbing orchards, next hatred of a life at the desk, and finally scallywagism.

1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xii. 158 He was fed up with scalliwagging all over the place. He wanted a season in town!

1977 Times 18 Aug. 6/1 Mr. Frank Johnson..has unimpeachable credentials as a civil rights defender. Governor George Wallace of Alabama once denounced him as ‘a scallywaggin', integratin', carpet-baggin' liar’.