hellion
5 synonyms for hellion, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A wild, noisy or badly behaved person, often a child.
Synonyms
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Etymology
This is an alteration, shaped by the influence of hell, of the northern English and Scottish dialect word hallion (“scamp, worthless fellow”), itself of unknown origin.
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