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Shakespeare's language was English so of course, "rascal" means "rascal". A rascal is a rogue, a scoundrel, a poor man with no scruples who makes his living as a cheat and a fraudster. Back then it did not have the vague connotation of cuteness that it has today. However, Falstaff and his cronies in the two Henry IV plays are forever calling each other rascals somewhat ingulgently, because that is exactly what they are.
Here is Shakespeare's definition of a rascal, from King Lear: "A knave; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch"
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∙ 12y agoIt means the same as it does now: a rascal is a dishonest naughty and rude person.
Shakespeare and his contemporaries used the word rascal in the same way that it is still used today, to mean a mischievous person. It was a fairly strong insult at the time.
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