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tallywack (複数形 tallywacks)

1. rascal; scalawag
   • 1992, Percy Janes, House of Hate, page 144:

     "Even this young tallywack. I might just as well be talkin' to the stove." In a frenzy of exasperation and with an expression of concentrated loathing, he then jumped up and hustled me into the hall [...]

2. a word of uncertain meaning
   • 1982, Sylvia Wilkinson, Bone of my bones

     Al Sawyer stuck out his tongue and pretended to reach toward his pocket. I closed my book and put it on the steps. "Hit a bump with his horse and stick his tallywack up his nose." That was Stevie Green who never talked much.

3. a sort of nightstick
   • 1965, Reinhold Niebuhr (editor), Mississippi Black Paper: Fifty-Seven Negro and White Citizens' Testimony of Police Brutality, the Breakdown of Law and Order and the Corruption of Justice in Mississippi:

     I have made several omissions that I now recall, such as his threatening that we had better not answer him and that he had a car full of men that would beat us if we didn't open the door (when he came around to the side that I was seated on). As he stood on this side of the car I also saw a tallywack (heavy, lead-loaded, leather-coated weapon). Signed: L Cress.