1. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
3. A vagrant; a bootblack.
4. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils.
to vituperate; to portray as a scoundrela menial helper
Disparaging terms for the common people; SYN. riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail.
Device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
ETYM Probably from Prov. Eng. and Scotch scunner, scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to as. scunian to shun. Related to Shun.
A mean, untrustworthy person; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
1. Malhonnête.
2. Vaurien.