Feminine
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racaille

people, mainly young, who engage in antisocial behaviour; rabble, riffraff; rascals

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁa.kaj/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French rascaille (“outcast, rabble”), perhaps from rasque (“mud, filth, scab, dregs”), from Vulgar Latin *rasicō (“to scrape”). Cognate with English rascal.

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