rascalの意味・使い方・発音

rascal

英 ['rɑːsk(ə)l] 美 ['ræskl]

rascalラスカル、ラスカル、ラスカル。

古フランス語のrascaille（チンピラ、暴徒）から、おそらく下品ラテン語のrasicare（こすりつける、こする）に由来し、語源的にはrash（消しゴム）と同じ。比喩的な使い方として、ゴミをこすり落とす。

rascal: rascal: [14] Rascal has been traced back ultimately to Latin rādere ‘scratch’. Its past participial stem rās- (source of English erase and razor) formed the basis of a Vulgar Latin verb *rāsicāre. From this was derived the noun *rāsica ‘scurf, scab, dregs, filth’, which passed into Old Northern French as *rasque (its central Old French counterpart, rasche, may be the source of English rash).

And it could well be that this *rasque lies behind Old French rascaille ‘mob, rabble’, which gave English rascal (the English word originally meant ‘rabble’ too, but the application to an individual person emerged in the 15th and 16th centuries). Rapscallion [17] is an alteration of a now defunct rascallion, which may have derived from rascal.
=> erase, rapscallion, rash, razor
rascal (n.): mid-14c., rascaile "people of the lowest class, rabble of an army," also singular, "low, tricky, dishonest person," from Old French rascaille "rabble, mob" (12c., Modern French racaille, "the rascality or base and rascall sort, the scumme, dregs, offals, outcasts, of any company" [Cotgrave, French-English Dictionary, 1611]), perhaps a diminutive from Old French rascler, from Vulgar Latin *rasicare "to scrape" (see rash (n.)). Used also in Middle English of animals not hunted as game.

1. Then a voice bawled: "Lay off! I 'll kill you,you little rascal ！": そして声を上げて「早く止めて！私はあなたを殺すから、このごろつき！」

2.He 's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.

彼はいい老いぼれだが、政治家としては最低だ。

4.If he had done otherwise，I should have thought him a rascal .: そうしなければ、彼は悪党だと思います。