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  • Sorry, kinda got plans to drink myself into a stooper and try to lure a random skallywag to my house for some BTK.

    CLOVERFIELD SPOILER SPOILS SPOILISHLY 2008

  • Also, I have recently become besotted with pirates, which may or may not have something to do with how knee-knockingly gorgeous Johnny Depp looks all dressed up as swaggering skallywag Captain Jack Sparrow, and am using any given opportunity to use the following terms: Avaste!

    weeme Diary Entry weeme 2003

  • Arrrrgh have uh tankard ob ale wif dis ‘ol skallywag wench!

    i gives u choice … - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • We hear she was also toying with dropping ‘wack’, ’square’, ‘not groovy’, or even going as far as calling Angelina Jolie a ’skallywag’ or – worse still – a ‘nincompoop’ in retaliation.

    Jennifer Aniston & Angelina Jolie: The Oscars Punch-Up, Sunday 2008

  • Ye're a nice sort o 'skallywag to hev charge of a gang -- ye're only a-playin' at workin ', ye an' the hull pack on yer; fur the durned dock ain't nary a sight deeper than it wer at four bells yester arternoon, I reckon! "

    The Island Treasure 1887

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