Peck's bad boy

English

Etymology

After Peck's Bad Boy, a character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).

Noun

Peck's bad boy (plural Peck's bad boys)

1. A mean-spirited young prankster.
   • 1885, Horace Smith Fulkerson, Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi, page 80:

     I was not "a character" in any sense, could not have been the original of any sensational story from the best boy in Sunday school to a Peck's bad boy.

   • 2011, Jack Smiles, Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's Boy Wonder, page 7:

     Bucky had a reputation around his Hughestown neighborhood, too, where the adults thought of Bucky as something of a Peck's bad boy.