bangster
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bangster (plural bangsters)
- (archaic, Scotland) A violent, overbearing man; a ruffian, bully or braggart.
- 1840, Thomas McCrie, The life of Andrew Melville, the Scottish reformer, abridged for the Board from McCrie's Life of Melville, page 15:
- “ […] but ere this preparative pass, that we dare not correct our scholars for fear of bangsters and clanned gentlemen, they shall have all the blood of my body first.”
- (archaic, Scotland) A victor.
- 1829, Robert Chambers, “The Maid that Tends the Goats”, in The Scottish songs, volume 2, page 506:
- None can ever match his fling,
At a reel, or round a ring.
Wightly can he wield a rung;
In a brawl he's aye the bangster: […]
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