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wagpastie en · NOUN

Etymology

From wag + pastie.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) A rogue; a rascal; a scoundrel.
   • Mathew Merygreeke: I will call hir: Maide with whome are ye so hastie? Tibet Talkapace: Not with you sir, but with a little wag-pastie, A deceiuer of folkes, by subtill craft and guile. Mathew Merygreeke: I knowe where she is: Dobinet hath wrought some wile. c. 1552, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister, act 3, scene 2:
   • Truly this wagpastie is eyther drunck or mad. c. 1562, Nicholas Udall, Jacke Jugeler, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1914, page 70:

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Synonyms

troublemaker