Fwd: scaramouch: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2014-09-10 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: scaramouch: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Sep. 10, 2014

scaramouch \SKAR-uh-mouch, -moosh\ noun 1. (lowercase) a rascal or scamp. 2. a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened. Quotes …it seemed that the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the Jeroboam. -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851 Origin Scaramouch entered English in the 1600s from the Italian scaramuccia literally meaning "skirmish." It is ultimately of Germanic orign.

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