"Scown"

[Margaret Lee]

It sounds to me like the AAE version of 'scoundrel.'


Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
Is anyone else familiar with "scown" (rhymes with "clown"). Its meaning
is akin to that of "rascal," to the extent that it can be used both of
humans as a mild insult and of animals.

Get up, you lazy scown!/rascal!

Look at that scown/rascal go! E.g. of a rabbit being chased by a dog/of
a dog chasing a rabbit

-Wilson Gray


---------------------------------
Yahoo! Mail Mobile
 Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.