scofflaw

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.4 References

[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)

1. One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets.)
2. An iconoclast

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ Quinion, Michael, World Wide Words, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sco2.htm