wagpastie

See also: wag-pastie

English

Alternative forms

• wag-pastie, wagpasty, wag-pasty

Etymology

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)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:troublemaker