Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag
(noun) one who is playfully mischievous
rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet
(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Rascal
A surname.
• Claars, craals, lascar, sacral, sarlac, scalar
rascal (plural rascals)
A dishonest person; a rogue, a scoundrel, a trickster.
Sometimes diminutive: a cheeky person or creature; a troublemaker.
(Papua New Guinea) A member of a criminal gang.
• (dishonest person; rogue): see villain
• (cheeky person): devil, imp, mischief-maker, scamp, scoundrel; see also troublemaker
rascal (comparative more rascal, superlative most rascal)
(archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.
• Claars, craals, lascar, sacral, sarlac, scalar
Source: Wiktionary
Ras"cal, n. Etym: [OE. rascaille rabble, probably from an OF. racaille, F. racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler to scrape, (assumed) LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L. radere, rasum. See Rase, v.]
1. One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill- conditioned beast, esp. a deer. [Obs.] He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak.
2. A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more. Dryden.
Ras`cal, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base. "The rascal many." Spencer. "The rascal people." Shak. While she called me rascal fiddler. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 April 2024
(verb) treat carefully; “He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”; “He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.