Currently playing a video game and a NPC called me this. It’s a pre-boomer term as I’ve always known. So, I thought it’d be fun to see who gets close to the definition.

Based entirely on trust-

Without googling it, wtf is a rap scallion?

EDIT: For clarification, I know it means onery and rambunctious youth, but what is it derived from. Like the origin of the term.

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 day ago

    Well, I’m pretty sure it’s just one word for starters.

    I’ve always read ‘rapscallion’ as a sort of youthful miscreant: an almost gender-neutral mildly negative label applied to a person lacking the wisdom of age who is engaged with some slightly rebellious activity.

    The word died about the time of ww2, when most of those erstwhile rapscallions became war veterans or casualties.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 day ago

      Those rapscallions veterans would go on to accuse the the next generation of rapscallions of being punks.

      Edit: Just checked if YouTube had a supercut of WIlliam Shatner’s TJ Hooker calling kids “punk”", but alas: nothing.

    • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      Fair. But my wueseuj was to mean, why is it a bad thing? What is a rap scallion? Sort of one how “asshole” is a derogatory, and it’s… well, an asshole. No one wants to be one. So why is a rapscallion bad?