polisson

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polisson

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Borrowed from French polisson.

noun

rare A 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.
Similar: antimodel, bad guy, baddie, bastard, beggar, blackguard, bounder, cad, cockatrice, coistril, evildoer, fustilarian

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@misc{polisson_2026,
  title = {polisson},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/polisson},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}