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Meaning of scalawag

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

scalawag

noun

Definitions

  1. A scrawny cow.

  2. A rascal.

  3. Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.