1) Character 2) Fictional character 3) Fictitious character 4) Rascal, from Italian farce 5) Scaramouche 6) Swaggering buffoon 1) Rascal 2) Scamp 3) Scaramouche 
ruffian; scoundrel
• (n.) A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
Scar'a·mouch` noun [ French scaramouche , Italian scaramuccio , scaramuccia , originally the name of a celebrated Italian comedian; confer Italian scaramuccia , scaramuccio , French escarmouche , skirmish. Confer Skirmish .] A personage in the old Ita...
[n] - a stock character in commedia dell`arte depicted as a boastful coward
Scaramouche noun a stock character in commedia dell`arte depicted as a boastful coward