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Rapscallion – never. I hate rap, and the only scallion I might refer to would be in a cassarolle.
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I posted my “Rap Scallion” comment before I read your reply. Glad to see more than one person thinking this basic thought!
I first saw it in a poem which included the phrase “but, in hugger-mugger”. The previous line rhymed with “mugger”, but I don’t recall anything else about the verse. Perhaps you saw the word in The Star Splitter:
[Quote=Robert Frost]
So Brad McLaughlin mingled reckless talk
Of heavenly stars with hugger-mugger farming,
Till having failed at hugger-mugger farming
He burned his house down for the fire insurance
And spent the proceeds on a telescope
To satisfy a lifelong curiosity
About our place among the infinities.
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