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rapparee

[ rap-uh-ree ]

noun

  1. an armed Irish freebooter or plunderer, especially of the 17th century.
  2. any freebooter or robber.


rapparee

/ ËŒ°ùæ±èəˈ°ù¾±Ë /

noun

  1. an Irish irregular soldier of the late 17th century
  2. obsolete.
    any plunderer or robber
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rapparee1

First recorded in 1680–90, rapparee is from the Irish word rapaire
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rapparee1

C17: from Irish rapairidhe pike, probably from English rapier
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But—if that's how you're going to take it, you foul-mouthed old rapparee!

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Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe.

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Rapparee, rap-ar-ē′, n. a wild Irish plunderer: a vagabond.

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He had the advantage in numbers; the advantage in generalship; above all, the advantage in the quality of his troops, who, if but few of them were as good as the trained French soldiers of his adversary, were none of them so bad as the rapparee Irish levies who formed the bulk of James's forces.

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And even as they knelt, a wild-eyed rapparee came pounding up with the news that a great force of English was at Cashel, a few miles away; so Red Hugh had to flee with his men over the hills to the westward, to die a year later, poisoned by a man he thought his friend.

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