Scungeal?

I was watching an episode of the A-Team (insert joke here) and I heard a word that I can’t find a referece to anywhere else. The character Hannibal says, “What kind of a scungeal would call himself a coffin?”

I have tried variant spellings, but this word does not seem to appear on the net anywhere under any spelling I can think to try except on one MySpace page.

What does this mean, and where does it come from? My best guess is that it’s italian, perhaps because it has a ring similar to ‘fangool,’ which is apparently a corruption of “va faire in culo” or some similar Italian phrase.

Scungilli. It’s a mollusk.

Well, that brings up a lot more hits. Thanks.

I haven’t found any other use of it as an insult, but the import of comparing someone to a mollusk sort of speaks for itself.