Definitionn. a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward
Last update: July 14, 2015
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So soon as this figure had been first descried, Stubb had exclaimed--"That's he! that's he!--the long-togged scaramouch the Town-Ho's company told us of!" [Please select]
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"Do you think I'm going to tell a scaramouch like you."' [Please select]
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My own old dog, Scaramouch (a pet of the Duke of Albany's in his undergraduate days), disliked being washed, and when I showed him a large _Graphic_ picture of a child scrubbing a fox-terrier in a tub, he turned his head away ruefully, and would not look at his brother in adversity. [Please select]
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"Well, when I was in these very waters in the Scaramouch we caught one with a bit of pork that weighed--the shark, I mean, not the pork--I forget just what, and wouldn't say, for fear you might think I was prevastigating, but it was twenty-four foot long." [Please select]
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