Etymology

scapegrace

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Today it means: A wild and reckless person (especially a boy); a scoundrel. Full definition →

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The story

From scape (“(archaic) escape”) + grace (“grace of god”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.