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English
Etymology
From wag + pastie.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What have meat pies got to do with being a scoundrel?”)
Noun
wagpastie (plural wagpasties)
- (rare, obsolete) A rogue; a rascal; a scoundrel.
c. 1552, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister, act 3, scene 2:Mathew Merygreeke: I will call hir: Maide with whome are ye so hastie?
Tibet Talkapace: Not with you sir, but with a little wag-pastie,
A deceiuer of folkes, by subtill craft and guile.
Mathew Merygreeke: I knowe where she is: Dobinet hath wrought some wile.
c. 1562, Nicholas Udall, Jacke Jugeler, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1914, page 70:Truly this wagpastie is eyther drunck or mad.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wagpastie.
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