polisson

P3O1L1I1S1S1O1N1

noun

A dishonest or mischievous person; a scamp.

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OriginFrench polisson →
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Meanings

noun
  1. rareA dishonest or mischievous person; a scamp.

    The polisson picked up his pocket-handkerchief and went—quite quietly, with simple manly grace; and that's the first I ever saw of Barty Josselin—and it was some fifty years ago.

    1896 October, George du Maurier, “The Martian”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XCIII, number DLVII, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, page 664, column 1

    Synonyms: antimodel, bad guy, baddie, bastard, beggar, blackguard, bounder, cad

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA dishonest or mischievous person; a scamp.

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Origin

  1. Frenchpolisson
  2. Frenchpolisson
  3. Englishpolisson

Borrowed from French polisson.

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APA

polisson. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polisson

MLA

“polisson.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polisson. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “polisson,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polisson.

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