rapparee
English
Etymology
from Irish rapaire, variant of ropaire (“cutpurse”).
Noun
rapparee (plural rapparees)
- A bandit or brigand.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- And then he would relate stories of banshees, and robberies, and ghosts, and hair-breadth escapes, and 'rapparees,' and adventures in the wars of King James, which he heard told in his nonage by the old folk, long vanished, who remembered those troubles.
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Anagrams
- appearer, præpare, reappear