rapparee

from Irish rapaire, variant of ropaire (“cutpurse”).

rapparee (plural rapparees)

1. A bandit or brigand.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     And then he would relate stories of banshees, and robberies, and ghosts, and hair-breadth escapes, and 'rapparees,' and adventures in the wars of King James, which he heard told in his nonage by the old folk, long vanished, who remembered those troubles.

• appearer, præpare, rape-rape, reappear