scofflaw
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- skflô, skôf-
[edit] Etymology
Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in 1923 in which a word for "a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor" was sought during the Prohibition era.[1]
[edit] Noun
scofflaw (plural scofflaws)
- One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets).
- An iconoclast.
[edit] References
- ^ Quinion, Michael, World Wide Words, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sco2.htm
