subs. (colloquial).—1. A term of (a) affection, and (b) contempt: cf. ‘rogue,’ ‘scamp,’ &c. (B. E., c. 1696, and GROSE, 1785). Also (2) ‘a man without genitals’ (GROSE, 1785). Whence RASKABILIA = the rascal people. See RAPSCALLION.
1557. TUSSER, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, 25. Beware RASKABILIA, slothfull to worke.
