schelm
See also: Schelm
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- Rhymes: -ɛlm
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schelm (plural schelms)
- (Scotland) A villain or scoundrel.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 201:
- Of her parents he knew nothing, except that "her father must have been a damned hundsfoot, and a schelm, for selling his own flesh and blood to Adrian Brackel;" […]
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Borrowed from German Schelm or Middle Low German schelm.
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schelm m (plural schelmen, diminutive schelmpje n)