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( scallywags)
If you call a boy or a man a scallywag , you mean that he behaves badly but you like him, so you find it difficult to be really angry with him. ( INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED )
It’s his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag.
= rascal
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