berascal

present singular third person berascals · US participle present berascaling · UK participle present berascalling · US participle past berascaled · US past berascaled · UK participle past berascalled · UK past berascalled

1. archaicTo accuse of being a rascal or to treat as a rascal.

   The brothers berascaled each other till they were hoarse, and our hero was, with regret we mention it, kicked out of doors, which kick was accompanied with a trifling curse.

   1790, Memoirs of a Social Monster: Or, the History of Charles Price

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   She beknaved, berascalled, berogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached.

   1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great

   In the pamphlet last mentioned, Nash asserts that the quarrel was entirely of Harvey's "seeking and beginning, in The Lamb of God [a work mentioned in the ensuing pages], where he and his brother * * * scummered out betwixt them an epistle to the readers against all poets and writers; and M. Lily [the dramatic poet, and author of Pap with a Hatchet] and me byname he beruffianised and berascalled, compared to Martin, and termed us piperly make-plays and make-bates, yet bade us hold our peace, and not be so hardy as to answer him; for, if we did, he would make a bloody day in Paul's Churchyard, and splinter our pens till they straddled again as wide as a pair of compasses.

   1842, Thomas Nash, John Payne Collier, Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil, page xix