rashlingn.
/ˈraʃlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈræʃlɪŋ/ Chiefly literary.
A rash person.rare before 19th cent.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [noun] > rashness or recklessness > rash or reckless person
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1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de la Nove Profit Imprisonm. sig. Ev What rashelings doe delight that sober men dispise.
1852 P. M. Roget Thesaurus 212/1 A desperado, rashling, bully, bravo, dare-devil.
1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) x. 219 Thou know'st the evil end, wilt yet begin? Yes, rashling, for thou'rt proud.
1895 Harper's Mag. Feb. 343/2 Downright gladness that such audacious rashlings had the chance to fight their lives out in their own strong way.
1922 Baroness Orczy Triumph of Scarlet Pimpernel v. 57 The young Hotspur and his crowd of rashlings would ere now have been torn from their seats.
1927 V. W. Brooks Emerson & Others iii. 54 His heart and his purse were open to the rashlings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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