larrikin

Etymology
Unclear. Suggested are:
 * A corruption of.
 * From 🇨🇬 larrikin ("hooligan").
 * From Black Country dialect (area near Birmingham, UK) larrikin ("tongue"); hence, an outspoken person.

Noun

 * 1)  A brash and impertinent, possibly violent, troublemaker, especially a youth; a hooligan.
 * 2) * 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 18,
 * “Even Oscar began to drink to excess. But he never bawled and pranced and wallowed in mud and came home in the arms of shouting larrikins.”
 * 1)  A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms.
 * “Even Oscar began to drink to excess. But he never bawled and pranced and wallowed in mud and came home in the arms of shouting larrikins.”
 * 1)  A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms.

Adjective

 * 1)  Exhibiting the characteristics or behaviour of a larrikin; playfully rebellious against and contemptuous of authority and convention.
 * 2) * 2002, Peter Craven, Introduction, in Quarterly Essay, QE 5 2002, page iii,
 * Mungo MacCallum is hardly typecast as the chronicler of the story of what has gone right and wrong about the business of immigration, regular and irregular, to this country but this most larrikin and cold-eyed of one-time Canberra chroniclers brings to this story all his wit and dryness and power of mind.
 * Mungo MacCallum is hardly typecast as the chronicler of the story of what has gone right and wrong about the business of immigration, regular and irregular, to this country but this most larrikin and cold-eyed of one-time Canberra chroniclers brings to this story all his wit and dryness and power of mind.