[Ads-l] scalawag

[Jonathan Lighter]

MW: "ca1848"

All from Newspapers.com:

1838 _Daily Buffalonian_ (Buffalo, N.Y.) (May 19) 3: Mr.
Barker...thinks he can prove to the court that  Mr. Cole called the
gentlemen a "faction" and "scallawags."

1838 _Niles {Mich.] Intelligencer_ (Aug. 29) 2: W. W. Nash,
_scalawag_, formerly tavern keeper..., now cruising with a roving
commission to cheat the world.

1839 _Western Citizen_ (Urbana, O.) (May 14) 2: The miserable
"scallawag," whose character needs...a Bowie knife to protect it, is
unfit to mingle with civilized beings.

Etc.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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