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Scaramouch Skar Uh Mouch Moosh Noun Lowercase Rascal Scamp.  Stock

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scaramouch \SKAR-uh-mouch, -moosh\
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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.

[Scaramouch entered English in the 1600s from the Italian scaramuccia literally meaning "skirmish." It is ultimately of Germanic origin.]

…it seemed that the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the Jeroboam. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

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