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Larrikin  n.  A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; a hoodlum; variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. (Australia & Eng.) "Mobs of unruly larrikins." Note: Larrikin is often popularly explained by the following anecdote (which is without foundation): An Irish policeman at Melbourne, on bringing a notorious rough into court, was asked by the magistrate what the prisoner had been doing, and replied, "He was a-larrikin' (i. e., a-larking) about the streets."





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... Eleventh, ii. Constable's History, Twelfth, ii. Constable's History, Thirteenth, ii. Constable's History, Fourteenth, ii. Constable's History, Fifteenth, ii. Constable's History, Sixteenth, ii. Cook, Story of the Larrikin and the, i. Coyntes, The Lady with the two, v. Crone and the Draper's Wife, Story of the, i. Crone and the King, Tale of the Merchant, the, i. Cunning She-thief, The Gate Keeper of Cairo and the, v. Dadbin and his Wazirs, Story ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton


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