Etymology
Possibly related to northern English or Scottish scunner: "to shrink back in fear or loathing" (Encyclopædia Britannica 1911).
Pronunciation
Noun
scoundrel (plural scoundrels)
- A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.
- Alexander Pope
- Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood / Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood.
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Translations
villain
- Arabic: وغد (ar) (waghd) m, نذل (ar) (nadhl) m, أزعر (ar) ('áz3ar) m, شرير (ar) (shirriir) m, ملط (ar) (milT) m, وضيع (ar) (waDii3) m, شقي (ar) (shaqiy) m
- Bulgarian: негодник (bg) (negódnik) m, мерзавец (bg) (merzávec) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 惡棍 (cmn), 恶棍 (cmn) (ègùn), 坏家伙 (cmn) (huàijiāhuo), 混混兒 (cmn), 混混儿 (cmn) (hùnhùnr) (Northern Mandarin), 壞蛋 (cmn), 坏蛋 (cmn) (huàidàn), 無籟 (cmn), 无籁 (cmn) (wúlài), 渾蛋 (cmn), 浑蛋 (cmn) (húndàn), 流氓 (cmn) (liúmáng), 壞人 (cmn), 坏人 (cmn) (huàirén), 混球 (cmn) (húnqiú)
- Czech: gauner (cs) m
- Dutch: schurk (nl) m and f, schavuit (nl) m and f
- Finnish: roisto (fi), lurjus (fi), konna (fi), ketku (fi), kanalja (fi), hunsvotti (fi)
- French: scélérat (fr) m, gredin (fr) m, canaille (fr) f
- German: Schurke (de) m, Gauner (de) m
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- Hindi: बदमाश (hi)
- Indonesian: bajingan (id)
- Irish: bithiúnach (ga) m
- Italian: canaglia (it) f, farabutto (it) m, furfante (it) m, mascalzone (it) m
- Japanese: 悪党 (ja) (あくとう, akutō), 悪漢 (ja) (あっかん, akkan), 悪人 (ja) (あくにん, akunin)
- Jèrriais: blégèrde m
- Malayalam: വഞ്ചകൻ (ml)
- Polish: łotr (pl) m, drań (pl) m
- Romanian: mișel (ro)
- Russian: негодяй (ru) (negodjáj) m, мерзавец (ru) (merzávec) m, подлец (ru) (podléc) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хуља (sh) f, зли̏ковац (sh) m
- Roman: hulja (sh) f, zlȉkovac (sh) m
- Spanish: bribón (es) m, canalla (es) m and f, bellaco (es) m, villano (es) m
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